If you want the Lord to hide your sins, then don't talk to people about what kind of virtues you have. For… — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
One can take eternity and time to be predicates of God since, being the Ancient of Days, He is the cause of… — Pope Dionysius 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
When the mind forgets the purpose of Christian life, then even the clear fulfillment of virtue becomes profitless. — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
More thinking is required, and we should all exercise our God-given right to think and be unafraid to express our opinions, with… — Hugh B. Brown Copy Share Image
The more one is united to his neighbor the more he is united to God. — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
...God will be 'all in all' (I Cor. 15:28) when we are no longer what we are now, a multiplicity of impulses… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
Shari'a is not just the Qur'an, you see Shari'a is comprised according to all the doctrines. There's consensus and analogy - argument… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share Image
...we know that God arranges the opportunities for salvation in different ways. Our situation is that we respond eagerly or in a… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
Whoever fears God stands above all manner of fear. He has become a stranger to all the fear of this world and… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
It is better to pray with good will for our neighbor, rather than to denounce him for every sin. — Marcus Eremita 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
In the spiritual life we can do nothing worthy without repentance, but the Lord has much mercy on us because of our… — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
One of the main effects (I will not say purposes) of orthodox traditional economics was ... a plan for explaining to the… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Let there always be a preponderance of mercy with you, even though you don't feel such mercy in yourself, as God has… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
Whoever prays for those who hurt him lays the demons low; but he who opposes his affronter is bound to the demons. — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
Many rich and powerful men would pay dearly to see the Lord or His Most Pure Mother, but God does not appear… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
If from one burning lamp someone lights another, then another from that one, and so on in succession, he has light continuously.… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
We were made for good works (cf. Phil. 1:11) to the glory and praise of our Maker, and to imitate God as… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
Life of the soul is union with God, as life of the body is union with the soul. As the soul was… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
Our starting-point must be the fact that God cannot be named... no mind has yet contained or language embraced God's substance in… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
Love is manifested not only through the distribution of one's possessions, but even moreso through the spreading of the word of God… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
No benefit comes from a just man's prayer if he who asks for it finds more pleasure in sin than in virtue.… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Being delivered from bodily sins is not enough; we must also cleanse the inner energy which dwells in our soul. For out… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
When your soul is pricked by compunction and gradually changed, it becomes a fountain flowing with rivers of tears and compunction. If… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
