Start Now

One of the most dangerous lies of the devil is the one that tells us to delay our repentance to another day.  This is a huge temptation and can lead us into a deeper mess.  He will tell us to wait until tomorrow or wait until our Confession to change.

This is wrong. We must never allow these diabolic voices to interfere with our spiritual progress.  If you are struggling with a particular sin, don't put off your repentance.  Start now.

Passes By

“O son of Adam, you are nothing but a mere collection of days. Whenever a day passes by, a part of you passes away.

“Death made life tasteless for the wise. Sadness in life regenerates many rewards.”

-Hasan al Basri

Equally Privileged

"Do not disdain those who are deformed from birth, because all of us will go to the grave equally privileged."

-St. Isaac the Syrian

Shadow

“If you know that all visible things are a shadow and all pass away, are you not ashamed of playing with shadows and hoarding transitory things? Like a child you draw water with a bucket full of holes; do you not realize it and take it into account, my dear friend? As though there were nothing more serious than appearance and illusion, as though reality has been taken from them?”

-St. Symeon the New Theologian

Divine Mysteries

“One should not think about the doings of God when one’s stomach is full; on a full stomach there can be no vision of the Divine mysteries.”

-St. Seraphim of Sarov

Tranquility

Burdensome

“But nothing causes such exceeding grief as when anyone, lying under the captivity of sin, calls to mind from where he has fallen, because he turned aside to carnal and earthly things, instead of directing his mind in the beautiful ways of the knowledge of God. So you find Adam concealing himself, when he knew that God was present and wishing to be hidden when called by God with that voice which wounded the soul of him yourself? Why are you concealed? Why do you avoid Him Whom you once longed to see? A guilty conscience is so burdensome that it punishes itself without a judge, and wishes for covering, and yet is bare before God.”

-St. Ambrose of Milan