PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

The heart does not become pure by wanting God intensely, but by allowing God to purify what it means to want Him. “There is a desire that seeks God, and there is a desire that seeks to possess even God. Only the fire reveals the difference.” There comes a moment in the spiritual life when desire itself must be judged. Not extinguished. Not distrusted. But brought into the light. We begin perhaps because something has awakened in us. The heart discovers that the world cannot s