Elder Ephraim Arizona - Γέροντας Εφραίμ της Αριζόνας

It is very consoling, my child, that each one of us will receive his reward based on how much he has labored for the love of Christ. I...

Concerning the sorrow which you have in your soul because of your sins, it is good and beneficial. Only when it leads you to despair, ...

In this world, my child, people are divided into good and bad, rich and poor, educated and uneducated, noble and lowborn, smart and n...

In this world, my child, people are divided into good and bad, rich and poor, educated and uneducated, noble and lowborn, smart and ...

Concerning the sorrow which you have in your soul because of your sins, it is good and beneficial. Only when it leads you to despair, then...

About the grief that torments you, I have told you many times that it is your cross which our Jesus has given to you so that you may be...

Οh, how beneficently our God and Father intervenes by means of pain in the life of man, His child! If man knew the spiritual benefit t...

Glory to the only wise God, Who knows how to extract the sweet out of the bitter and thus enrich our knowledge out of His boundless lo...

Why are you sorrowful and glum while walking along the way of God? Those who have forgotten God, who have no hope in the living and eter...

Are you able to enumerate the mercies of God? The sins of the worst person, before the compassion of God, are like a handful of sand i...

 No matter how much we may suffer, the time will come when all will end and each one of us will be given repose in accordance with his...

Glory to the only wise God, Who knows how to extract the sweet out of the bitter and thus enrich our knowledge out of His boundless love...

 Affliction is an instrument, a tool, which God holds in His hand. He alone uses it as His infinite wisdom dictates. He uses it differen...

Man’s life is a martyrdom. Ever since we fell from true happiness we gather the fruit of disobedience: “Thorns and thistles will the ear...

A physician torments a sick person with operations, bitter medicines, amputation of body parts, etc., with the purpose, of course, of c...

Why are you sorrowful and glum while walking along the way of God? Those who have forgotten God, who have no hope in the living and ete...

   Are you able to enumerate the mercies of God? The sins of the worst person, before the compassion of God, are like a handful of san...

In the tragic ordeal that my Elder went through, how tangibly he felt Christ! While to others the approach of death causes trembling a...

Here in this vain world, my child, we shall be afflicted, we shall be embittered, we shall feel pain. But all this is for a limited time;...

Man’s life is a martyrdom. Ever since we fell from true happiness we gather the fruit of disobedience: “Thorns and thistles will the ear...