In the measure that we pay attention and take care to carry out what we hear, God will always enlighten us and… — Dorotheus of Gaza 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
As it is not possible to walk without feet or fly without wings, so it is impossible to attain the Kingdom of… — Theophan the Recluse Copy Share Image
I'm a believer who loves Jesus and I work with everybody else whatever their denomination; Catholic, Orthodox, charismatic, main line, evangelicals, anyone… — Bill Bright Copy Share Image
One of the stranger things about me is that I was raised as an Orthodox Jew. I went to a yeshiva until… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits? — Anton Chekhov 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
Blessed is he who like Joshua (cf. Josh. 10:12-13) keeps the Sun of righteousness from setting in himself throughout the whole day… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
The apostles were very sure that everything of theirs which had to do with salvation was a gift to them from God.… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
Draw nigh to the righteous, and through them you will draw nigh to God. Communicate with those who possess humility, and you… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
I grew up in a Christian home. The strictness comes with religion in general. Whether you grew up Jewish or Orthodox Jewish… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
What is perfection in love? Love your enemies in such a way that you would desire to make them your brothers ...… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Through repentance the filth of our foul actions is washed away. After this, we participate in the Holy Spirit, not automatically, but… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
The Reformed Church was identified with the old all-white government of South Africa and its apartheid policy. The Roman Catholic Church was… — Edd Doerr Copy Share Image
Adam became so proud that he wished to become God and died for his pride; the Son of God humbled Himself unto… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
A certain monk told me that when he was very sick, his mother said to his father, "How our little boy is… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
The vault above us is not deaf because the universe is an idiot; the silence is not the heartless silence of an… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
...we must first scrutinize thoroughly anything appearing in our hearts or any saying suggested to us. Has it come purified from the… — John Cassian 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
We were not born critical of existing society. There was a moment in our lives (or a month, or a year) when… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
How can it be other than right to worship the Body of the Lord, all-holy and all-reverend as it is, announced as… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
A man becomes spiritual insofar as he lives a spiritual life. He begins to see God in all things, to see His… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
“Plain speaking is necessary in any discussion of religion, for if the freethinker attacks the religious dogmas with hesitation, the orthodox believer… — David Marshall Brooks Copy Share Image
Modern Orthodoxy has a highly positive attitude toward the State of Israel. Our Ultra-Orthodox brethren recognize only the Holy Land, but not… — Norman Lamm Copy Share Image
The man who follows Christ in solitary mourning is greater than he who praises Christ amid the congregation of men. — Isaac of Nineveh 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
I will be praying with my best wishes that the Orthodox move ahead because they are brothers and their bishops are bishops… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Strive with all your might to bring your interior activity into accord with God, and you will overcome exterior passions. — Arsenius the Great Copy Share Image
Take as an example the wisdom of Joseph and his submission. Do battle in chastity and service until you make yourself a… — Pachomius the Great Copy Share Image
The one thing that the Catholic Church desires, and that I seek as Bishop of Rome, “the Church which presides in charity”,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Even Martin Luther and John Calvin believed that the Roman Catholic church, up to the Council of Trent, was basically orthodox -… — Norman Geisler Copy Share Image
Not all Modern Orthodox Jews, at the present juncture, identify with what the Israeli government does. In Israel many religious Zionists strongly… — Norman Lamm Copy Share Image
Whoever has known the love of God loves the whole world and never murmurs against his fate, for the burden of sorrow… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
Do not disdain the commandment to love, for through it you become a son of God, and when you break it, you… — 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
I happen to be a Christian. I was brought up and drenched in that. I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Inasmuch as you pray with all your soul for the one who has slandered you, so much will God reveal the truth… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb 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
