PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

Conscience as the Guardian of Desire and the Door to Healing “For the judgment of God looks not to what is done, but to the motive of what is done.” Hypothesis VII A9-B and Hypothesis VIII A-C4 One of the striking features of the desert tradition is the extraordinary seriousness with which the Fathers speak about the conscience. Modern readers can easily mistake conscience for little more than an inner feeling, a private moral opinion, or an emotional sense of guilt. The Fath