By obedience a man is guarded against pride. Prayer is given for the sake of obedience. The grace of the Holy Spirit… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
Why do you increase your bonds? Take hold of your life before your light grows dark and you seek help and do… — Isaac of Nineveh 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
Don't be troubled if you don't feel the love of God in yourself, but thing about the Lord, that He is merciful,… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
I am not the same kind of Mormon girl I was when I was seven, eight, or eighteen years old. I am… — Joanna Brooks Copy Share Image
If you find that you have no love but desire to have it, do the works of love and the Lord will… — Ambrose of Optina Copy Share Image
I grew up in an Orthodox family, as I grew older, I became Conservative and that's how it ended up. But I've… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
A humble man who lives a spiritual life, when he reads the Holy Scriptures, while relate all things to himself and not… — Mark the Evangelist Copy Share Image
... if we are ashamed to imitate our Lord's sufferings, which He endured for us, and to suffer as He suffered, it… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart's blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we observe-whether we… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
It seems like -- especially in religious circles and Christian circles, we want to first talk about the things we're opposed to.… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
One should not seek among others the truth that can be easily gotten from the Church. For in her, as in a… — Irenaeus of Lyons 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
We must follow the ways of the Lord, and take heed to our own ways, lest they lead us into sin. One… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness consists in not regarding things as our own, but as entrusted to us by God for the benefit of our fellow-servants.… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
The best moments on earth are those during which we meditate upon heavenly things in general, when we recognize or defend the… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
No one seeing a beautifully elaborated lyre with its harmonious, orderly arrangement, and hearing the lyre's music will fail to form a… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
What is the cause that one is hardened, and another readily moved to compunction? Listen! It springs from the will, in the… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
We must, with God's help, eradicate the deadly poison of the demon of anger from the depths of our souls. So long… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
The patient endurance of the saints exhausts the evil power that attacks them, since it makes them glory in sufferings undergone for… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
... the Apostle Peter declared that the Church was built by the Holy Spirit. For you read that he said: 'God, Who… — Ambrose 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
Perfection... is clearly not achieved simply by being naked, by the lack of wealth or by the rejection of honors, unless there… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
“In the Orthodox ecclesial experience and tradition a sacrament is understood primarily as a revelation of the genuine nature of creation, of… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
The devil loves and always rejoices over the ungoverned; those who are not subject to one who has power, under God, to… — Dorotheus of Gaza 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
You see, my father was a Catholic priest, Greek Orthodox, but I think he started out as a Jew, then he became… — Walter Matthau Copy Share Image
The yeshiva where I studied considers itself modern Orthodox, not ultra-Orthodox. We followed a rigorous secular curriculum alongside traditional Talmud and Bible… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
If we were not passionately inclined to money or to vainglory, then we would not fear death or poverty. We would not… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Are you angry? Be angry at your sins, beat your soul, afflict your conscience, but strict in judgement and a terrible punisher… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
...it is up to us to add labors to labors in order to go from strength to strength (Ps. 83:7), and to… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
I’m someone who can sit in a Buddhist temple, and I can sit with Pentecostals or with Orthodox Jews, and I still… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
A man who is enticed by sinful thoughts is blinded by them, and he sees the action of sin in himself, but… — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
Do not try to decide a difficult matter by means of disputing, but that which is enjoined by the spiritual law, namely… — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
All my life I have prayed to God that I should remain religiously orthodox, culturally conservative, politically liberal and economically pragmatic. — Richard John Neuhaus 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
The Holy Apostle John the Theologian says that the commandments of God are not difficult, but easy (I John, 5:3). But they… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
I accept with sincere belief the doctrine of faith as handed down to us from the Apostles by the orthodox Fathers, always… — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
The biggest cause of society's change today is that people no longer believe in orthodox religion. They go to church, but they… — Li Hongzhi Copy Share Image
While we have the freedom to share our love for God with Him and His people in our own language, let's make… — Brenton Brown Copy Share Image
