PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

Humility, Stillness, and the One Thing Necessary “Force yourself, then, to imitate the humility of Christ, so that the fire which He sent down upon you may blaze up all the more.” — St. Isaac the Syrian, Homily 16 One of the most striking characteristics of St. Isaac’s writings is that he never asks us to renounce the world because the world is evil. Rather, he continually places before us something infinitely more beautiful. He speaks so often of the sweetness of communion w