PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

When God Removes the Blinders Child, Do not say that you are choosing a new way. Say rather that God has judged false sight and restored true vision. There comes an hour when patience ceases to be virtue and becomes concealment. There comes an hour when endurance no longer heals but preserves a wound. God allows this only for a time. When the soul has learned what it must, He removes the blinders: not gently, but decisively. What has shaped your inner life was not accidental.

When Religious Formation Loses the Spirit of Christ “The demons also speak of humility, but they do not possess it.” — Saying attributed to the Desert Fathers There is a way of speaking about God that sounds exact and yet is hollow. The words are correct. The phrases are familiar. Scripture is quoted fluently. The language of humility, obedience, discernment, even self-emptying, flows easily. And yet something in the soul recoils. Not because the words are wrong, but because