...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 not Catholic, I’m not Orthodox…" and I wouldn’t even say Rastafarian, that still divides people, I don’t want to divide people… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
Temptations come on some people for the cleansing of previous sins, on other for the beautification of their current perfection, and on… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
There are people who, when they encounter inability to understand, do not ask the Lord. But one must immediately say, "Lord, I… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
God hears and fulfills the prayer of a man who fulfills His commandments. "Hear God in His commandments," says St. John Chrysostom,… — Justin Popovic Copy Share Image
A passion is a contranatural movement of the soul or an irrational love, or an blindfold hatred toward any material thing, or… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Meekness is an unchanging state of mind, which both in honor and dishonor remains the same. Meekness consists in praying sincerely and… — John Climacus 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
...if you wish to get pure air into your room, or if you go for a walk in the fresh air, think… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
...one's movement towards the divine reaches its end only when one reaches God... 'The true Sabbaths are the rest laid up for… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Another thing I think should be avoided is extremely intense ideology because it cabbages up one's mind. You see it a lot… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Jerusalem - a divided city, where demonstrations for and against various issues occur regularly. One day, during an Orthodox demonstration against autopsies,… — Micha Bar-Am Copy Share Image
True spiritual knowledge has sometimes flourished most grandly in some who were without eloquence and almost illiterate. And this is very clearly… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
'Every good endowment and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights' (Jms. 1:17). But there is… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image
He who asks to receive his daily bread does not automatically receive it in its fullness as it is in itself: he… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Our starting-point must be the fact that God cannot be named... no mind has yet contained or language embraced God's substance in… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
The saints were people like all of us. Many of them came out of great sins, but by repentance they attained the… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
If God suffers in the flesh when He is made man, should we not rejoice when we suffer, for we have God… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
...God will be 'all in all' (I Cor. 15:28) when we are no longer what we are now, a multiplicity of impulses… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
[Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
The mind of a man that loves God does not fight against things or thoughts about them, but against the passions that… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Examine yourself to see whether you have within you a strong sense of your own self importance, or negatively, whether you have… — Theophan the Recluse Copy Share Image
But I say to you, the Lord says, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, pray for those who… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
It is odd that neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. At… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If you see your neighbor in sin, don't look only at this, but also think about what he has done or does… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
What's really neat about the Orthodox church is that it's like walking back in time 2,000 years to the time of the… — Troy Polamalu 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
David's Lord was made David's Son, and from the fruit of the promised branch sprang One without fault, the two-fold nature coming… — Pope Leo I Copy Share Image
When you have been insulted, cursed, or persecuted by someone, do not think of what has happened to you, but of what… — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
I am a Christian according to my conscience in belief,in purpose and wish;Mnot of course by the orthodox standard. But I am… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Let us be satisfied simply with what sustains our present life, not with what pampers it. Let us pray to God for… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
The extremists are talking too loudly, and everyone is convinced that only he is on the right side. It’s not just Jews… — Reuven Rivlin 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
Gluttony should be destroyed by self-control; unchastity by desire for God and longing for the blessings held in store; avarice by compassion… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
Ask me if Christianity (my version of it, yours, the Pope's, whoever's) is orthodox, meaning true, and here's my honest answer: a… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
We are assailed by the temptation of the love of money. If you wish to acquire riches ? they are the bait… — Pachomius the Great Copy Share Image
... we grapple with this 'law of sin' (Rom. 8:2) and expel it from our body, establishing in its place the surveillance… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
Basically what Salomé did with Rilke as a mentor was direct him toward the Russian Orthodox Church, so he could project his… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
Radical views that are outside the mainstream generally (but not always) are more reliable than the dominant view because they are more… — Michael Pare Copy Share Image
[God] is perfect not only insofar as He is absolute perfection, defining perfection in Himself and from His singular existence and total… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image
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