You don’t have the right If you spend your entire life in sin, then you don’t have the right to hope for God’s help when you badly need it. […]
Category: Saints and Elders – Counsels
Elder Efraim of Arizona.Humble yourself and the Spirit of God will overshadow you.
Humble yourself and reproach yourself. Do not justify yourself, even if you are absolutely right, for self-justification is not conducive to the healing of our spiritual illness. […]
Elder Efraim of Arizona. Eternity.Paradise or hell?
Raise your mind to the dread judgment seat of Christ —what defense shall we give on the day of judgment when our deeds are judged? How frightening is the […]
Advices to fight the passion of polylogy or talking too much
Do not start a long conversation with the one who listens to you with a bad attitude, because you will make him feel very uncomfortable with you and will […]
Elder Efraim of Arizona. God tries with every means to awaken us.
How precious is the time of this life! Every minute has great worth, for within one minute we can think so many things, either good or evil. One […]
Giving up smoking
Giving up smoking Some of my spiritual children told me that they gave up the passion of smoking because when they went to a monastery, they heard a crazy […]
How to practice the Jesus prayer
Sit down alone and in silence, lower your head, close your eyes, breathe calmly, and imagine yourself looking into the depths of your heart. Walk your thoughts through this […]
Elder Efraim of Arizona. When you are ill….
I pray that you will always be healthy. But when you are ill, bear patiently the chastening of the Lord which is sent from His affectionate and immense heart. […]
The value of the spiritual father
When I was younger in the world, I had seen a movie that stuck in my memory, and this movie helped me at the beginning of my life as […]
First of all is prayer
The saddest thing of all is that the vain wisdom of this world expects that divine matters are measured with human metrics and standards. Many people think wrongly about […]