PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

The terrible danger of a life put in order but not given wholly to God “When he comes he finds it swept and put in order.” There are words of Christ that console us because they reveal the tenderness of God. There are others that strip us bare. This is one of them. “He who is not with me is against me; he who does not gather with me scatters.” There is no neutral ground. We would like there to be. We would like a small territory of the heart that belongs neither to God nor to

Wisdom begins where the heart ceases to possess “In every generation she passes into holy souls and makes them friends of God, and prophets.” — Wisdom 7:27 “May God grant that I speak with judgment and have thoughts worthy of what I have received.” This is where wisdom begins. Not with knowing. With receiving. Before the wise man speaks, he confesses that even his words are not his own. “We and our words are in his hand.” The desert understood this. A man came seeking wisdom