Let others mock at you, oppose you, when you are under the influence of any passion; do not be in the least… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Given that we desire long life, should we not take eternal life into account? If we long for a kingdom which, however… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
There are only five notes in the musical scale, but their variations are so many that they cannot all be heard. There… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
No benefit comes from a just man's prayer if he who asks for it finds more pleasure in sin than in virtue.… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
The Lord called Himself and is the 'good Shepherd' (Jn. 10:11). If you believe in His guidance, then you will understand by… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
Do you conceive of your Lord as less because? He shows that humiliation is the best road to exaltation (cf. Mt. 23:12);… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
...we know that God arranges the opportunities for salvation in different ways. Our situation is that we respond eagerly or in a… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when Joy is the fundamental thing in him, and Grief the superficial. Melancholy should… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Men seized of the urge to have a knowledge of God and to be pure in mind devote all their gathered energies… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
Let none of you have a soul which is barren and without fruit. Let nobody be unloving or unreceptive to the spiritual… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
“When the great ship containing the hopes and aspirations of the world, when the great ship freighted with mankind goes down in… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Can anyone be a father without beginning to be one? Yes, one who did not begin his existence. What begins to exist… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
If one takes pleasure in calling the gold standard a "barbarous relic," one cannot object to the application of the same term… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If you are remembering evil against someone, then pray for him; and as you remove through prayer the pain of the remembrance… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
The Lord greatly loves the repenting sinner and mercifully presses him to His bosom: "Where were you, My child? I was waiting… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
When your soul is pricked by compunction and gradually changed, it becomes a fountain flowing with rivers of tears and compunction. If… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
Worthless is the charity of the man who bestows it unwillingly, because material charity is not his, but God's gift, while only… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
Sin is one thing but instinctive reaction or passion is another. These are our reactions: pride, anger, sexual indulgence, hate, greed, and… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
We ask for what reason our Lord was unwilling to state the time of His coming (cf. Mk. 13:31-32). If we ask… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
“We all know that any emotional bias -- irrespective of truth or falsity -- can be implanted by suggestion in the emotions… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“It is not a gathering of 'escapees' from the world, bitterly enjoying their escape, feeding their hate for the world. Listen to… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
If our Lord ascends up to Heaven, ascend with Him. Be one of those angels who escort Him, or one of those… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
Mary properly bore the name of Virgin, and possessed to the full all the attributes of purity. She was a virgin in… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
“The supernatural Christ of the New Testament, the god of orthodox Christianity, is dead. But priestcraft lives and conjures up the ghost… — Anonymous 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
The grateful applause of the clergy has consecrated the memory of a prince, who indulged their passions and promoted their interest. Constantine… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
... those who sit in the darkness of passions and whose minds are blinded by ignorance, or, rather, those who have not… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
It is only all too easy to understand the requirements contained in God's Word ('Give all your goods to the poor.' 'If… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
For him who is perfect in love and has reached the summit of dispassion there is no difference between his own or… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Without the power of intelligence there is no capacity for spiritual knowledge; and without spiritual knowledge we cannot have the faith from… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
If we move in the direction of biblial absolutism how can we escape turning the New Testament into a Christian Torah and… — Robert D. Brinsmead Copy Share Image
Since 'the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force' (Mt. 11:12), and it is impossible for the… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
“There is only one salvation for you: take yourself up, and make yourself responsible for all the sins of men. For indeed… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
There have been delivered to us in the Gospel three Persons and names through Whom the generation of the birth of believers… — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
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
... for our sake loosing within Himself the bonds of bodily birth, He granted us through spiritual birth, according to our own… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
While He [the Lord Jesus] was sitting alone by the well, 'There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water' (John 4:7).… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
Lust is as it were desire and desire, will which extends beyond the natural will, passionate, not governed by the law and… — Patriarch Philaret of Moscow Copy Share Image
“The characteristics of this kind of reading are perhaps summed up in the word “orthodox,” which is almost always applicable. The word… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
...[sacred] doctrine is especially based upon arguments from authority, inasmuch as its principles are obtained by revelation: thus we ought to believe… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
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