Tag: Amma Theodora
Keep to Your New Year’s Resolutions
However, you should realize that as soon as you intend to live in peace, at once evil comes and weighs down your soul through accidie, faint heartedness, and evil thoughts. It also at tacks your body through sickness, debility, weakening of the knees, and all the members. It dissipates the strength of soul and body,… Read More ›
Enter by the narrow gate
Amma Theodora said, ‘Let us strive to enter by the narrow gate, Just as the trees, if they have not stood before the winter’s storms cannot bear fruit, so it is with us; this present age is a storm and it is only through many trials and temptations that we can obtain an inheritance in… Read More ›
Humility is victorious over the demons
Amma Theodora said that neither asceticism, nor vigils nor any kind of suffering are able to save, only true humility can do that. There was an anchorite who was able to banish the demons; and he asked them, “What makes you go away? Is it fasting?” They replied, “We do not eat or drink.” “Is… Read More ›