Those who have truly decided to serve the Lord God should practice the remembrance of God and uninterrupted prayer to Jesus Christ,… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
The likeness of Your Church, O Lord, is that woman who went behind and touched the hem of Your garment, saying within… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
It is impossible for the mind to remain undisturbed by thoughts, but anyone serious about the matter can certainly permit them entry… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
He who has realized love for God in his heart is tireless in his pursuit of the Lord his God, and bears… — Maximus the Confessor 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
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
...whoever is guided solely by his own judgment and decision will never climb up to the summit of perfection and will not… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
Today's widespread relegation of religion to merely something people do only in the privacy of their homes or churches would have been… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
If you want to correct your brother when he is doing wrong? you must keep yourself calm; otherwise you yourself may catch… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
Truth is not something you can appropriate easily and quickly. You certainly cannot sleep or dream yourself to the truth. No, you… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Who should listen to discussions of theology? Those for whom it is a serious undertaking, not just another subject like any other… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
“There are two common and complementary mistakes, which have been made over and over again concerning spirits by people in the Western… — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
When we become incorruptible and immortal, and attain to the blessed state of conformity with Christ, we will be ever with the… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
Our Lord Christ Himself strikes down our enemies through us, or in company with us. For he who eats Christ's flesh and… — Lorenzo Scupoli Copy Share Image
... the Apostle Paul says that we are sealed in the Spirit (cf. Eph. 1:13); since we have in the Son the… — Ambrose 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
Divine service, being the high contemplation of the mind, is at the same time, and pre-eminently, the peace, the sweetness and blessedness… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
'For where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them' (Mt. 18:20). I… — 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
Even if we have thousands of acts of great virtue to our credit, our confidence in being heard must be based on… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
In our nation a new and insidious form of religious hatred is developing. I believe there is an attempt to create hatred… — Paul McGuire Copy Share Image
The Lord came to send fire upon the earth (cf. Lk. 12:49), and through participation in this fire He makes divine not… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
Just as a strongly flowing fountain is not blocked up by a handful of earth, so the compassion of the Creator is… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
If God has given us Himself, if He abides in us and we in Him, according to His own true words, then… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
... the more one needs God the more perfect he is. To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Whoever you may be, always have God before your eyes; whatever you do, do it according to the testimony of the holy… — Anthony the Great Copy Share Image
To love Christ -means not to be a hireling, not to look upon a noble life as an enterprise or trade, but… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
...although divided in His various powers and energies, in each of His works the Holy Spirit is wholly present and active, undividedly… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, not heterodoxies, not atheists, not profane secularism - no, but the kind… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
...the wise providence of God orders our affairs in many different ways and lovingly bestows on each one of us what is… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
...unless the grace of God comes to the help of our frailty, to protect and defend it, no man can withstand the… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
I'm an orthodox Christian. When people ask me if I'm a Christian, I always want to qualify and know what they mean… — Scott Derrickson Copy Share Image
You cannot be too gentle, too kind. Shun even to appear harsh in your treatment of each other. Joy, radiant joy, streams… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
...the greatest thing each person can do is to give himself to God utterly and unconditionally - weaknesses, fears, and all. For… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
He who is insolent towards men is insolent towards God... Respect in man the grand, inestimable image of God and be forbearing… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
Not one of the first six [U.S.] presidents was an orthodox Christian. Most of the founders were Deists, who "doubted that Christ… — Robert Sherrill Copy Share Image
God is present in the moment of choice, not in order to watch but in order to be chosen. Therefore, each person… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
If everything that exists was made by God and for God, and God is superior to the things made by Him, he… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Ideas of value always shun verbosity, being foreign to confusion and fantasy. Timely silence, then, is precious, for it is nothing less… — Diadochos of Photiki Copy Share Image
The longer we remain without confessing, the worse it is for us, the more entangled we become in the bonds of sin,… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
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