We must have our gaze fixed on heaven.

Source: ICONANDLIGHT

    

We must have our gaze fixed on heaven. Then nothing will shake us.

Please put this commandment into practice:  Cultivate love towards the Person of Christ to such an extent that, when you pronounce His name, tears fall from your eyes. Your heart must really be aflame. Then He will become your teacher. He will be your Guide, your Brother, your Father, and your Geron (Elder).

Love your Bridegroom Christ with all your heart and then everyone will love you and take care of you.

The more a person loves God, the more he loves other people. He loves them with holiness, respect and refinement, as images of God.

The saints submitted to whatever God sent them, with childlike simplicity, “That’s the way You want it. Let Your will be done.”

When a person lacks inner warmth, he will be frozen and cold, even in summer.

When your heart does not have Christ, it will contain either money, property or people instead.

Love your Bridegroom Christ with all your heart and then everyone will love you and take care of you.

The Grace of the All-Holy Spirit makes a person send out rays. However, other people must have a good receiver in order to realise this.

Innocence is greater than genius.

Never ever give importance to anything earthly and fleeting. Take care of your spiritual union with God instead.

Our deeds, dear sister, will not save us; God’s infinite mercy will.

Spiritual bonds become unbreakable when they come across a child-like spirit, innocence and sanctity.

Question: “Elder, how must we picture Christ?” Answer: “We must always bring to Christ to mind with love. We could be holding the photograph of someone in our hands, but since we do not know them, we do not love him, we are not moved. Whereas, when we pick up a photograph of our mother, our soul immediately leaps and cries out with love.”

Leave all your concerns to the hands of God. Ask for whatever you want, like a child asking from its father.

Elder Amphilochios Makris (+1970).

1/6/2015

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