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From a Homily on
​The Will of the Righteous in the Will of God

St. Nikolai Velimirovic
"But his delight is in the Law of the Lord and on His Law doth he meditate day and night"  (Psalm 1:2)
"...The mind is the rudder of both the will and the heart.  If the mind is permanently directed toward God, then it will eagerly meditate day and night on the Law of God, and will not walk in the counsel of the ungodly (Psalm 1:1) but will seek the truth and the revelation of all that is in God's Law.  If the mind is so directed to God, then, swiftly, the heart and will of man will also be directed toward God.  Then the will, as the implementing organ of the inner man, will carry out only what is in accordance with the will of God and what is written in the Law of God.  Then man will not stand in the way of the sinners (Psalm 1:1), and will not sit in the seat of the scornful (Psalm 1:1); he will not commit sin, nor will he draw other men to sin.  At the beginning of this Psalm, the Prophet David praises the man who does not commit three specific evils, and now he continues to praise him when he does two good things.  The three evils are:  to seek wisdom of a sinner, to live the life of a sinner and to corrupt others by one's evil example.  The two good things are:  to conform one's will completely to the Law of God; and to direct one's mind to meditate day and night on God's Law.

O my brethren, how lamentably shallow are the minds of all those who do not know the Law of God!  The depth of man's mind is measured by the depth of his knowledge of God's law.  The mind of him who meditates on the mysteries of God's law is deep, wide and exalted; and the mind is the rudder of the heart and will. ..."
From The Prologue of Ohrid, October 2nd

The History of Christianity from an Orthodox Christian Perspective

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Mary, Cause of Our Rejoicing

His Grace, Bishop Basil
​Mary the Theotokos is very close to my heart, and, I am certain, close to the hearts of all who love her Son, Jesus. I can hardly think of her name without tears. When God, in the fullness of time, because of His great love for His creation, sent His Only-Begotten Son to save us sinners, He chose to do so in a way that is at once simple and tender, and profound, beyond our comprehension. He came to find a bride.

And God the Father, who is above all and in all and over all, chose to unite Himself, through the Person of the Most Holy Spirit, with one of us: the only daughter of Joachim and Anna, the young woman of Nazareth who had been prepared from all ages to become the bride of God. She is our boast. She is like us in her earthly beginning, and she is like us in her earthly end. She is at once our sister—a daughter of Adam, just like us—and also our mother.
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St. Joseph the Hesychast
"When you humble yourself, everyone will seem saintly to you; when you are proud, everyone will seem bothersome and bad."

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