PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

Hope as the Fruit of Love, Not the Excuse of Sloth “Faith has need of labors also, and confidence in God is the good witness of the conscience born of undergoing hardship for the virtues.” — St. Is aac the Syrian ⸻ There is a sobriety in St. Isaac’s teaching on hope that cuts through every illusion of easy religion. He will not allow hope to become sentiment, nor will he permit it to be reduced to a desperate cry uttered only when life begins to collapse. The man whose heart