... 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
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
My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Judge not according to the orthodox standard of a system religious, philosophical, political, but according as things promote, or fail to promote… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Just as the light of the sun attracts a healthy eye, so through love knowledge of God naturally draws to itself a… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Leave all human injustices to the Lord, for God is the Judge, but as to yourself, be diligent in loving everybody with… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
When modern political Zionism emerged around the turn of the twentieth century, most Orthodox Jews opposed it. — David Novak Copy Share Image
The Orthodox hierarchy doesn't have the kind of power that high-ranking clergy do in other churches. There isn't even a worldwide governing… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
[Our Lord Jesus Christ] was... carried up to heaven (Lk. 24:50-51). With a radiant cloud for a chariot, He ascended in glory… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
There is no man who will not be grieved at the time of his chastisement; and there is not man who will… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
You should always say your prayers with tireless diligence, as the Apostle directs, saying: 'Continue in prayer and watch in the same'… — Lorenzo Scupoli Copy Share Image
When I walk into an Orthodox Church... one is immediately aware that one has stepped into the presence of what St. Paul… — Thomas Howard Copy Share Image
I like to imagine, as a thought experiment, the day, perhaps not too far off, when a Republican president nominates a Supreme… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
... it is better to believe even what is impossible to our own nature and to men, than to be unbelieving like… — Justin Martyr Copy Share Image
... only the good deed done for Christ's sake brings us the fruits of the Holy Spirit. All that is not done… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
God belongs to all free beings. He is the life of all, the salvation of all ~faithful and unfaithful, just and unjust,… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
For the first time I understood the dogma of eternal pain... For the first time my imagination grasped the height and depth… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The Lord has given the Holy Spirit upon the earth, and in whomsoever He dwells, that one feels paradise within himself. You… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
'If he trespass against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to you, saying, I… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
... faithfully and strenuously you should resist the heretics in defense of the only true and life-giving faith, which the Church has… — Pope Clement I Copy Share Image
...though every thinking being longs for God, the First Cause, it is powerless... to grasp Him. Tired with the yearning it chafes… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
Mary properly bore the name of Virgin, and possessed to the full all the attributes of purity. She was a virgin in… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
Tremble with awe, O men! The insults God suffered for the sake of our salvation you too must endure! God is slapped… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
“The supernatural Christ of the New Testament, the god of orthodox Christianity, is dead. But priestcraft lives and conjures up the ghost… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whoever has a spiritual gift and compassionate toward one who does not have it guards his gift through his compassion. But whoever… — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
...the title 'Righteousness' is given to God because He assigns what is appropriate to all things; he distributes their due proportion, beauty,… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image
The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“In the Orthodox Church, we don't go for partial immersion; no sprinkling, no forehead dabbing for us. In order to be reborn,… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
My spiritual pain is unbearable. I keep having the same unsolved question: if my rifle claimed people's lives, then can it be… — Mikhail Kalashnikov Copy Share Image
...whoever is guided solely by his own judgment and decision will never climb up to the summit of perfection and will not… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
The dynamically orthodox orders of religious women will continue to grow, and the dying orders, which long ago opted for the lightest… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
“Some people in orthodox churches in Africa take poverty as a path that leads to heaven, making christianity look unattractive.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Don't let your eyes look here and there, and don't look on someone elses' beauty, so that the devil will not conquer… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
I was raised in an Orthodox Jewish household and I wouldn't say so much it's informed my views, but it's informed my… — Rebecca Goldstein 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
Keep in mind God's precept that states, 'Judge not, and you will not be judged' (Lk. 6:37), and in no way meddle… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
Do not think about or do anything without a spiritual purpose, whereby it is done for God. For If you travel without… — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed… — Huston Smith 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
An orthodox belief in big government's inefficiency cannot coexist with an orthodox belief in private industry's inability to compete with big government. — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
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