Who is far from love is a bad state, and to be pitied. He passes his days in a delirious dream, far… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
As far as I am concerned I wish to be out on the high seas. I wish to take my chances with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
He who through virtue and spiritual knowledge has brought his body into harmony with his soul has become a harp, a flute… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Orthodox Jews, or, as they are known in the Talmud, the Really Chosen Ones, are committed to the idea that the entire… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
It is pointless for someone to say that he has faith in God if he does not have the works which go… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
... when death has been brought upon a saint, we ought not to think that an evil has happened to him but… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
When you begin to read or listen to the Holy Scriptures, pray to God thus: "Lord Jesus Christ, open the ears and… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
Towards orthodox religion, father's own attitude remained one of tolerance. He looked upon the New Testament as the noble story of a… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
If the divine Logos of God the Father became son of man and man so that He might make men gods and… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
A man who is wrathful with us is a sick man; we must apply a plaster to his heart - love; we… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
It is not our free will but 'it is the Lord who sets the captive free' (Ps. 145:7). It is not our… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
The American Negro must rebuild his past in order to make his future. Though it is orthodox to think of America as… — Arturo Alfonso Schomburg Copy Share Image
Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publication, the free press as we know… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
If... Adam had trusted in God and been nourished from the tree of life (Gn. 2:9)? he would not have set aside… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
If we keep the path of virtue undefiled through devout and true knowledge, and do not deviate to either side, we will… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
“For all serious intellectual progress depends upon a certain kind of independence of outside opinion, which cannot exist where the will of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A horrible human toll the Russian Orthodox Church suffered throughout almost the entire 20th century. The Church is just rising from its… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The orthodox believers in God are divided into two camps, one of which maintains that the existence of God is as demonstrable… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Men can never understand the fear of everlasting punishment that fills the souls of women and children. The orthodox religion, as drawn… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Unlike much of orthodox medicine, alternative approaches to healing typically honor the wisdom and capability of the human body. Their goal is… — John Robbins Copy Share Image
I'd met Simon [Segars] for the first time in London. He struck me as a quiet, natural-born engineer and an orthodox successor… — Masayoshi Son Copy Share Image
...we must all offer up a hymn of praise to the God... who is 'Lord of lords' (Deut. 10:17, Ps. 136:1, I… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image
In general, the nightmare quality of Marx's thought gives it, in this bedevilled age, an air of greater reality than the gentle… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
God thought and things came to be, in-formed: the divine thought is the complicated womb of all that is. For it's not… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
Love does not reflect. Love is simple. Love never mistakes. Likewise believe and trust without reflection, for faith and trust are also… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
Whoever will not love his enemies cannot know the Lord and the sweetness of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit teaches us… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
When hungry, do not throw yourself upon food - else you will overload your heart and body. Eat slowly, without avidity, with… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
The Logos came down out of love for us. Let us not keep Him down permanently, but let us go up with… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
I'd been to Saint Petersburg before, but there's been a change in people's minds. Maybe it's a fashionable thing, but people have… — Manolo Blahnik Copy Share Image
Christ sits in the body at the right hand of God the Father, but we do not hold that the right hand… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
... the Lord's Cross discloses the entire dispensation of His Coming in the flesh, and contains within it the whole mystery of… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
We have gone a long way toward civilization and religious tolerance, and we have a good example in this country. Here the… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the struggle the holy commandments of God must be fulfilled with a certain forcefulness of will (cf. Mt.… — Diadochos of Photiki Copy Share Image
When like the patriarchs we learn to dig wells of virtue and spiritual knowledge within ourselves by means of ascetic practice and… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
'Now we are the sons of God'. This is the starting point of adoption. However, 'it does not yet appear what we… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
...we are not without hope of salvation, nor is it at all the right time for us to despair. All our life… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
The way that Russian Orthodox services work generally, and certainly the way that this worked, is that it goes on for hours… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The Bolshevik revolution was a counter-revolution. Its first moves were to destroy and eliminate every socialist tendency that had developed in the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I pray we... come to this darkness so far above light! If only we lacked sight and knowledge so as to see,… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image