In all of our deeds God looks at the intention, whether we do it for His sake, or for the sake of… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
What survived as orthodox Christianity did so by suppressing and forcibly eliminating a lot of other material. — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
Let no man's place, or dignity, or riches, puff him up; and let no man's low condition or poverty abase him. For… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
Do you know of any more overwhelming and humbling expression for God's condescension and extravagance towards us human beings than that He… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Our forefather Adam... used his freedom to turn toward what was worse and to direct his desire away from what had been… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
The East is unfamiliar with those confessions, memoirs, and autobiographies so beloved in the West. There is a clear difference in tonality.… — Paul Evdokimov Copy Share Image
The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
By accepting a suspicion against the neighbor, by saying, 'What does it matter if I put in a word about my suspicion?… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
When modernist poetry, or what not so long ago passed for modernist poetry, can reach the stage where the following piece by… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
I reckon silence more profitable than speech, for? in the words of the Preacher, 'The words of wise men are heard in… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
... if a man prays God for some virtue, and at the same time gives himself up to negligence, acquiring no definite… — Lorenzo Scupoli Copy Share Image
I'm not an Orthodox Jew, I don't practise much in the way of Jewish religion, but I am very Jewish and I… — Michael Marmot Copy Share Image
I started my professional life as a philosopher of language and for several years took the orthodox line that meaning is an… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
It is like employing a small tool on big constructions, if we use human wisdom in the hunt for knowledge of reality. — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
Do you know what a great gift it is that God gave us the right to speak to Him every hour and… — Porphyrios (Bairaktaris) of Kafsokalivia Copy Share Image
