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- Christ is our hope, our cleansing and santification, our resurrection, life and repose. He alone is what we all need, and therefore, the Orthodox Church…
- Leave all human injustices to the Lord, for God is the Judge, but as to yourself, be diligent in loving everybody with a pure heart...
- As the Holy Trinity, our God is One Being, although Three Persons, so, likewise, we ourselves must be one. As our God is indivisible, we…
- The Lord, before His Incarnation, let mankind experience all the bitterness of sin, all their powerlessness to eradicate it; and when all longed for a…
- Worthless is the charity of the man who bestows it unwillingly, because material charity is not his, but God's gift, while only the disposition of…
- Remember that God, during your prayers, is watching for your affirmative answer to the question which He is inwardly asking you: 'Do you believe I…
- The accursed one does not allow the eye of the heart to see the Lord or His saints. He darkens our heart in every way.…
- Avoid duplicity, that is, do not let your heart be divided between attachment to God and attachment to earthly things, 'You cannot serve God and…
- Besides loving each other, we must bear with each other and pardon ? 'forgive them that trespass against us' ? in order that our heavenly…
- 'With God all things are possible' (Mk. 10:27). With God the thought itself is deed. He speaks and it is. Short and clear. And all…
- When you pray either aloud or to yourself for others ? for instance, for the members of your household or for strangers, even though they…
- We must by every means humble our hearts and subdue our proud intellect, lest we should be like the contemporaries of the prophets, who looked…
- Firmly believe that the Lord is at all times everything to you. During prayer He is the power and the fulfillment in the Holy Spirit…
- 'Hail, you who are highly favored, the Lord is with you' (Lk. 1:28)! Thus does the holy Church invoke the most holy Virgin, the Mother…
- It is necessary for a Christian to fast, in order to clear his mind, to rouse and develop his feelings, and to stimulate his will…
- 'They straightway left their nets and followed Him' (Mt. 4:20). The Apostles did not grudge leaving their nets for the Lord's sake, although they were…
- Prayer is spiritual breathing; when we pray we breathe in the Holy Spirit; praying in the Holy Spirit (Jd. 1:20). Thus, all church prayers are…
- 'If he trespass against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to you, saying, I repent; you shall…
- How do we receive the highest mystery of Divine love to us ? the mystery of the Christian faith? With our mind, heart and life;…
- When you see your body wasted away through sickness, do not murmur against God, but say: 'The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away;…
- 'For where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them' (Mt. 18:20). I reverence even two…
- Our requests are necessary expressly to strengthen our faith, through which alone we can be saved. 'By grace are we saved through faith' (Eph. 2:8).…
- God is resplendently reflected in the souls of His chosen ones, and these pure souls, these images of God, like the transparent glass, shine forth…
- The Lord called Himself and is the 'good Shepherd' (Jn. 10:11). If you believe in His guidance, then you will understand by your heart that…
- If God has given us Himself, if He abides in us and we in Him, according to His own true words, then what will He…
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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