When you are in the temple, remember that you are in the living presence of the Lord God, that you stand before… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
You will be able to check envy if you rejoice with the man whom you envy whenever he rejoices, and grieve whenever… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
... courage is accompanied by patience and firm resolution? God sets courage like a sea around the weakness of our nature, enabling… — Niketas Stethatos Copy Share Image
Just as the thought of fire does not warm the body, so faith without love does not actualize the light of spiritual… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
“As an Orthodox Christian who is trying to love his brothers and sisters and wishes them to know the love and salvation… — Andrew Stephen Damick Copy Share Image
When you are depressed, bear in mind the Lord's command to Peter to forgive a sinner seventy times seven (cf. Mt. 18:22).… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
Orthodox Christians have the habit of claiming all great men, all men who have held important positions, men of reputation, men of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The Lord is the accomplishment of everything good that I think, feel and do. — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
The slave of the belly ponders the menu with which to celebrate the feast. The servant of God, however, thinks of the… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
...angels... are always being filled full of light, becoming ever more radiant and making blessed use of their natural ability to change.… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
... we should not worry about clothes or food? Such anxiety is a mark of? unbelievers, who reject the providence of the… — Evagrius Ponticus Copy Share Image
It may well happen that what is in itself the more certain on account of the weakness of our intelligence, which is… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
God belongs to all free beings. He is the life of all, the salvation of all ~faithful and unfaithful, just and unjust,… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
It is not enough to know the Son of God in the Father's nature only, unless we acknowledge Him in what is… — Pope Leo I Copy Share Image
Prayer is spiritual breathing; when we pray we breathe in the Holy Spirit; praying in the Holy Spirit (Jd. 1:20). Thus, all… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
“[M]ost Americans are still drawing some water from the Christian well. But a growing number are inventing their own versions of what… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Tremble with awe, O men! The insults God suffered for the sake of our salvation you too must endure! God is slapped… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
God is resplendently reflected in the souls of His chosen ones, and these pure souls, these images of God, like the transparent… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
If, as we have said, we commemorate each of the saints with hymns and appropriate songs of praise, how much more should… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
...it is not the obscure passages in Scripture that bind you but the ones you understand. With these you are to comply… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
...if we know God our knowledge of... everything will be brought to perfection, and, in so far as is possible, the infinite,… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image
When the soul is solidly rooted in... peacefulness, when it is freed of the bonds of every carnal urge, when the unshaking… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
“His conclusions were staggering to those complacent souls who considered themselves safely ensconced in a Christian world: The inhabitants of the world,… — Sam Wellman Copy Share Image
By keeping the Commandments the soul is purified and the mind too is enlightened, and starts to function as nature intended it… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
Many have said much about love, but you will find love itself only if you seek it among the disciples of Christ.… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
