When Christ Enters Your Heart, Your Life Changes | Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia

When Christ enters the heart, the passions are destroyed. You can no longer insult, hate or take revenge—no longer, no longer, no longer... Where could hatred, opposition, judgement of one's neighbour, selfishness, anxiety or depression find a place? Christ reigns, together with an ardent longing for the light that knows no evening.
When you do not live with Christ, melancholy, sadness and distress enter; you do not live as you should.
The love of God remakes, transforms, sanctifies, corrects and transfigures all things.
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Christ is life: the source of life, joy, true light—everything. Whoever loves Christ and other people truly lives. Life without Christ is death, hell, not life. Hell is the absence of love. Life is Christ. Love is the life of Christ. You will be either in life or in death. What you choose depends on you.
Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia