Do good when you remember, and what you forget will be revealed to you; and do not surrender your mind to blind… — Syncletica of Alexandria Copy Share Image
Intelligent men have no need to listen to much talk, but should attend only to that which is profitable and guided by… — Anthony the Great Copy Share Image
One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
A pure heart is perhaps one which has no natural propulsion towards anything in any manner whatsoever. When in its extreme simplicity… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
We know that prayer in and of itself cannot save us, but carrying it out before God can. For when the Lord's… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
I think that one must approach the Logos Savior, not induced by the fear of punishment and not in the expectation of… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
...knowing God is the condition for the sanctification of a human being by God's assistance and according to His intention. Wherever God… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It is not the self -critical who reveals his humility ( for does not everyone have some how to put up with… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
When you are depressed, bear in mind the Lord's command to Peter to forgive a sinner seventy times seven (cf. Mt. 18:22).… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
The fruits of the earth are not brought to perfection immediately, but by time, rain and care; similarly, the fruits of men… — Anthony the Great Copy Share Image
There is no greater love than that a man lays down his life for his neighbor. When you hear someone complaining and… — Poemen Copy Share Image
...a human being not only can choose but... he must choose... for in this way God retains His honor while at the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
... the Apostle Peter declared that the Church was built by the Holy Spirit. For you read that he said: 'God, Who… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
The patient endurance of the saints exhausts the evil power that attacks them, since it makes them glory in sufferings undergone for… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
'Greater love has no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends' (Jn. 15:13). In truth if… — Poemen Copy Share Image
Do you know of any more overwhelming and humbling expression for God's condescension and extravagance towards us human beings than that He… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
If you want to correct your brother when he is doing wrong? you must keep yourself calm; otherwise you yourself may catch… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
Truth is not something you can appropriate easily and quickly. You certainly cannot sleep or dream yourself to the truth. No, you… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“[M]ost Americans are still drawing some water from the Christian well. But a growing number are inventing their own versions of what… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
The word of God has provided nine explanatory designations of the heavenly beings... the first group is forever around God and is… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness consists in not regarding things as our own, but as entrusted to us by God for the benefit of our fellow-servants.… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
The person who loves God cannot help loving every man as himself, even though he is grieved by the passions of those… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
All who have lived according to God still live unto God, though they have departed this life. For this reason, God is… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up; satisfies it supremely in this, that by its… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
By keeping the Commandments the soul is purified and the mind too is enlightened, and starts to function as nature intended it… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
It is amusing to hear the modern Christian telling you how mild and rationalistic Christianity really is and ignoring the fact that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Every success in anything we should refer to the Lord and with the Prophet say: 'Not to us, O Lord, not to… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
The Lord says, 'Whoever has, to him shall be given' (Mt. 13:12). He will give, then, to those who have; that is… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
He who has realized love for God in his heart is tireless in his pursuit of the Lord his God, and bears… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Prayer is spiritual breathing; when we pray we breathe in the Holy Spirit; praying in the Holy Spirit (Jd. 1:20). Thus, all… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
... if, to me, to live is Christ (Phil. 1:21), truly my words ought to be about Christ, my every thought and… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Those who have truly decided to serve the Lord God should practice the remembrance of God and uninterrupted prayer to Jesus Christ,… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
All of us who are human beings are in the image of God. But to be in his likeness belongs only to… — Diadochos of Photiki Copy Share Image
It is impossible for the mind to remain undisturbed by thoughts, but anyone serious about the matter can certainly permit them entry… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
The likeness of Your Church, O Lord, is that woman who went behind and touched the hem of Your garment, saying within… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
They have not understood that the Lord's Cross discloses the entire dispensation of His coming in the flesh, and contains within it… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
Today's widespread relegation of religion to merely something people do only in the privacy of their homes or churches would have been… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Divine service, being the high contemplation of the mind, is at the same time, and pre-eminently, the peace, the sweetness and blessedness… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
'For where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them' (Mt. 18:20). I… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
Where unclarity resides, there is temptation, and there it proves only too easily the stronger. Wherever there is ambiguity, wherever there is… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
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