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Orthodox Quotes by John Cassian
- ...just as the edifice of all the virtues strives upward toward perfect prayer so will all these virtues be neither sturdy nor enduring unless they…
- ...works of piety and charity... are necessary in this present life for as long as inequality prevails. Their workings here would not be required were…
- Fasts and vigils, the study of Scripture, renouncing possessions and everything worldly are not in themselves perfection, as we have said; theyare its tools. For…
- Perfection... is clearly not achieved simply by being naked, by the lack of wealth or by the rejection of honors, unless there is also that…
- When we say 'hallowed be Your name' to God what we are really saying is 'Father, make us such as deserve knowledge and understanding of…
- In proportion as the ardor of divine love brings you nearer to God, so will a larger concourse of saintly brethren flock to you. For,…
- True spiritual knowledge has sometimes flourished most grandly in some who were without eloquence and almost illiterate. And this is very clearly shown by the…
- God is not only to be known in His blessed and incomprehensible being, for this is something which is reserved for His saints in the…
- ... when death has been brought upon a saint, we ought not to think that an evil has happened to him but a thing indifferent;…
- ... a Christian is quite certain to fall into the same sins which he condemns in another with merciless and inhuman severity, for 'a stern…
- ... there is clearly expressed for us? what it is we must attribute either to free will or to the decision and daily assistance of…
- True knowledge is found only among those genuinely worshiping God.
- If you want to correct your brother when he is doing wrong? you must keep yourself calm; otherwise you yourself may catch the sickness you…
- Let everybody know this. He shall be assigned to the place and to the service to which he gave and devoted himself in this life…
- We must, with God's help, eradicate the deadly poison of the demon of anger from the depths of our souls. So long as he dwells…
- The apostles were very sure that everything of theirs which had to do with salvation was a gift to them from God. 'Increase our faith'…
- Men seized of the urge to have a knowledge of God and to be pure in mind devote all their gathered energies to this one…
- The second request of the very pure soul is to see the coming of the Father's kingdom (cf. Mt. 6:10). What this means first of…
- When the soul is solidly rooted in... peacefulness, when it is freed of the bonds of every carnal urge, when the unshaking thrust of the…
- It is not our free will but 'it is the Lord who sets the captive free' (Ps. 145:7). It is not our own virtue but…
- No just man suffices unto himself for the winning of justification. The divine mercy must always hold out a hand to his footsteps as they…
- ...we know that God arranges the opportunities for salvation in different ways. Our situation is that we respond eagerly or in a laggardly manner to…
- ...when we abandon visible riches... it is strange goods and not our own that we are leaving. And this is so even if we boast…
- ...whoever is guided solely by his own judgment and decision will never climb up to the summit of perfection and will not fail to be…
- [God] arranged that the boy Samuel should be chosen but instead of teaching him directly He had him, turn once or twice to an old…
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- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Progress, this great heresy of decay. — Charles Baudelaire
- One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six… — Mortimer Adler
- The orthodox believers in God are divided into two camps, one of which maintains that the existence of God is as demonstrable… — Annie Besant
- From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right. — Samuel Butler
- I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and… — Marina Abramovic
- (When asked merely if they accept evolution, 45 percent of Americans say yes. The figure is 70 percent in China.) When the… — Carl Sagan
- 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
- [Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of… — Abraham Maslow
- It is odd that neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. At… — Bertrand Russell
- We have gone a long way toward civilization and religious tolerance, and we have a good example in this country. Here the… — Harry S. Truman
- Tell me there is a God in the serene heavens that will damn his children for the expression of an honest belief!… — Robert Green Ingersoll