... at the beginning of the human race the woman was made of a rib taken from the side of the man… — Saint Augustine 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
The gloomy theology of the orthodox--the Calvinists--I do not, I cannot believe. Many of the notions--nay, most of the notions--which orthodox people… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
The man who knows the delight of the love of God ? when the soul warmed by grace, loves both God and… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
God descends to the humble as waters flow down from the hills into the valleys. — Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow Copy Share Image
I was brought up in an Orthodox Jewish household. I don't think I ever had a single discussion with my parents about… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
Today the eyes of orthodox Jews of earth are fixed upon Palestine. — Joseph Franklin Rutherford Copy Share Image
...just as the edifice of all the virtues strives upward toward perfect prayer so will all these virtues be neither sturdy nor… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
A passion is a contranatural movement of the soul or an irrational love, or an blindfold hatred toward any material thing, or… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
It is only all too easy to understand the requirements contained in God's Word ('Give all your goods to the poor.' 'If… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
All orthodox opinion - that is, today, "revolutionary" opinion either of the pure or the impure variety - is anti-man. — Wyndham Lewis 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
A discerning man, when he eats grapes, takes only the ripe ones and leaves the sour. Thus also the discerning mind carefully… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
“Some of the simplest of truths are also some of the most difficult of truths, but such is Christianity: 'If it's not… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Unclean spirits increase the passions in us, making use of our negligence, and inciting them. But the angels decrease our passions, inciting… — 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
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
... whenever Christ, the Bridegroom of pure souls, is mystically united with each soul, He gives the Father occasion to rejoice over… — Gregory Palamas 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
Whatever we do or say without prayer always ends up either sinful or harmful and convicts us through the deeds in some… — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
If you see the fury and hear the howling of the tempest, or read of shipwrecks, think of the storm of human… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
We are assailed by the temptation of the love of money. If you wish to acquire riches ? they are the bait… — Pachomius the Great Copy Share Image
The religious quality of Marxism also explains a characteristic attitude of the orthodox Marxist toward opponents. To him, as to any believer… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
The Lord loves us so much that He suffered for us on the Cross; and His suffering was so great that we… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
Either it is true that a medicine works or it isn't. It cannot be false in the ordinary sense but true in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
