Orthodox Quotes

572 Orthodox quotes by 179 unique authors

...it is up to us to add labors to labors in order to go from strength to strength (Ps. 83:7), and to come to the… — Seraphim of Sarov
The Lord came to send fire upon the earth (cf. Lk. 12:49), and through participation in this fire He makes divine not just the human… — Gregory Palamas
Do not desert a friend in time of need, nor forsake him nor fail him, for friendship is the support of life. Let us then… — Ambrose
... at the beginning of the human race the woman was made of a rib taken from the side of the man while he slept;… — Saint Augustine
... when death has been brought upon a saint, we ought not to think that an evil has happened to him but a thing indifferent;… — John Cassian
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;… — John of Kronstadt
Our Lord humbled without humiliation His lofty station which yet could not be humbled, and condescends to His servants, with a condescension ineffable and incomprehensible.… — John of Damascus
... do not listen to vain and empty talk, in which the majority of world-loving people spend their time, and do not take pleasure in… — Lorenzo Scupoli
... a Christian is quite certain to fall into the same sins which he condemns in another with merciless and inhuman severity, for 'a stern… — John Cassian
Let none of you have a soul which is barren and without fruit. Let nobody be unloving or unreceptive to the spiritual seed. May each… — Gregory Palamas
Everything is possible for the believer. I have watched impure souls mad for physical love but turning what they know of such love into a… — John Climacus
A man does not possess all the gifts, lest he think that grace is nature. — Saint John Chrysostom
... you... are stones of the temple of the Father, prepared for the Father's building, and drawn up on high by the instrument of Jesus… — Ignatius of Antioch
... you must hasten to oppose pernicious pride of mind, before it penetrates into the marrow of your bones. Resist it, curb the quickness of… — Lorenzo Scupoli
It is pointless for someone to say that he has faith in God if he does not have the works which go with faith. What… — Gregory Palamas
Do you conceive of your Lord as less because? He shows that humiliation is the best road to exaltation (cf. Mt. 23:12); because He humbles… — Gregory of Nazianzus
It is impossible that one who has turned to the world and feels its anxieties, and engages his heart in the wish to please men,… — Gregory of Nyssa
... there is clearly expressed for us? what it is we must attribute either to free will or to the decision and daily assistance of… — John Cassian
... it is better to believe even what is impossible to our own nature and to men, than to be unbelieving like the rest of… — Justin Martyr
... where Solomon says that 'Wisdom has built herself a house' (Prov. 9:1), he refers darkly in these words to the preparation of the flesh… — Gregory of Nyssa
'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… — John of Kronstadt
Mary properly bore the name of Virgin, and possessed to the full all the attributes of purity. She was a virgin in both body and… — Gregory Palamas
If... we choose death rather than true life, God does not take away the power that He gave us. And not only does He not… — Gregory Palamas
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).… — John of Kronstadt
The Light of the Lord's Transfiguration does not come into being or cease to be, nor is it circumscribed or perceptible to the senses, even… — Gregory Palamas

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