Quotes of the Day for March 24, 2026 – Thoughts how can be strengthened in the Lord
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“Why is it that in moments when sorrow seems unbearable to us, and we are balancing on the verge of despair, that we can’t feel that strengthening Right Hand of the Lord, which as we’ve heard many times preserves everything in His power. Maybe because we ourselves in these hard moments find ourselves doing something not exactly right? Maybe we ourselves don’t go to where this support is being obtained? We do not want to raise even a small spiritual labor, expecting that such knowledge of the closeness of the Lord should be given to us “on a silver platter”. The answer to this question is found in the Holy Scriptures. The Holy Scriptures call upon a person in moments of sorrow to turn to God: Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me (Psalm 49:15[1]). Our Lord Jesus Christ fully experienced all of those sufferings and tribulations that we face in our lives, and He has shown us an example of the fulfillment of the Psalmist’s call. As true Man, He also needed to be strengthened from His Heavenly Father, and in the Gospel, we see what He does to gain such strengthening. The Gospel says that Christ being in agony, prayed more earnestly. (Luke 22:44).” (Priest Dimitry Vidumkin)
“… the modern world is literally saturated in sin. Sin has become the norm. But nothing is impossible for the grace of God. And if you long for God, then there can be no insurmountable obstacles on your path. I like the saying of St. Paisios the Hagiorite, who all his life strove “not to upset the Lord.” If we set ourselves such a task, if we always ask ourselves whether our actions and thoughts are pleasing to God or not, the Lord will strengthen us.” (Bishop Porfiry)
“We may enjoy the Lord’s presence in our earthly temples and in our icons, yet we must never forget that His true temple is situated in the heart. Those of worthy heart – who know well their spiritual blindness and crippled state – will joyfully throng to the Lord, go into the temple of the heart, and seek the healing touch of Christ our God. Thus, anywhere in the world men and women may worship the Lord by coming to Him (Matthew 21:14) in spirit and in truth to be illumined, strengthened, and healed of sin and evil…The ministry of the Church is to strengthen people to embrace Christ’s healing and thus become more fully human in Him.” (Dynamis 8/7/2020, Fr. Philip LeMasters)
“Brothers and sisters, unfortunately, anyone can become an egoist. In His infinite love for man, God allowed suffering for him so that sin should not take full control over His creation and destroy it completely. Suffering and death exist in this world as the aftermath of sin. But if they didn’t exist in our world, no one would stop sinning and this world would become an unbearable hell. A believer often experiences total, ontological helplessness in suffering and humbles himself…In his struggle with sin, a believer is never alone for a single moment. On the contrary, he is constantly strengthened by the grace of God.” (Metropolitan Serafim Joanta)
“How much peace and strength the psyches draw from the silence of God! How much this strengthens them during the day so that they can keep themselves peaceful without nervous tension and anxiety, but have all their forces united in harmony! Some people in other places seek silence of the psyche by using artificial means that are deluded and demonic… They try to find a certain silence by using external exercises, meditation etc., to achieve a certain balance of psyche and body. The fault in all these is that properly speaking, even when man tries to forget the various considerations of the material world he does not have a dialogue with God, but only a monologue with himself, so that once again he ends up in anthropomorphism, and in this way he fails.” (Archimandrite George)