The orthodox view of colour experience assumes that, when we see a colour difference between two surfaces viewed side-by-side, this is because… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
Those who, animal-like, live solely according to the senses... misuse God's creation in order to indulge the passions. They do not understand… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Afflictions for God's sake are dearer to Him than any prayer or sacrifice. — Isaac of Nineveh 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
“When the great ship containing the hopes and aspirations of the world, when the great ship freighted with mankind goes down in… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
O man, do you believe that Christ is God? If you believe, fear, and keep His commandments? there is no other God… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
Draw nigh to the righteous, and through them you will draw nigh to God. Communicate with those who possess humility, and you… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
In the measure to which a man cuts off and humbles his own will, he proceeds toward success. But insofar as he… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
A man is eminent as long as he is orthodox. When he begins to think for himself he becomes a crank. — Walter Hadwen 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
Agnostics are people who, like myself, confess themselves to be hopelessly ignorant concerning a variety of matters, about which metaphysicians and theologians,… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
David's Lord was made David's Son, and from the fruit of the promised branch sprang One without fault, the two-fold nature coming… — Pope Leo I Copy Share Image
Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
... the people who, in spite of the bonds of sin which fetter them and hinder them (by constraint and by inciting… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
If you are fond of dressing elegantly, or when you put on your clothes, think of the incorruptible garment of righteousness in… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
I think these younger Christians are the vanguard of some major new religious, social, and political arrangements that could make the older… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Avoid duplicity, that is, do not let your heart be divided between attachment to God and attachment to earthly things, 'You cannot… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
Since 'the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force' (Mt. 11:12), and it is impossible for the… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
To square the records, however, it should be said that if the Calvinist does not rise as high, he usually stays up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...one's movement towards the divine reaches its end only when one reaches God... 'The true Sabbaths are the rest laid up for… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
All our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
[Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
I’m someone who can sit in a Buddhist temple, and I can sit with Pentecostals or with Orthodox Jews, and I still… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
What has actually to be said about the Cause of everything is this. Since it is the Cause of all beings, we… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image