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Orthodox Quotes by Saint Basil
- Our Savior was crucified for our sakes that by His death He might give us life and train and attract us all to endurance. To…
- When our Lord says, 'I have not spoken of Myself' (Jn. 12:49), and again, 'As the Father said to Me, so I speak' (Jn. 12:50),…
- It is not he who begins well who is perfect. It is he who ends well who is approved in God's sight.
- ... if, to me, to live is Christ (Phil. 1:21), truly my words ought to be about Christ, my every thought and deed ought to…
- I reckon silence more profitable than speech, for? in the words of the Preacher, 'The words of wise men are heard in quiet' (Eccles. 9:17).
- ... the more have been your trials, look for a more perfect reward from your just Judge. Do not take your present troubles ill. Do…
- To Whom does our God say, 'in our image' (Gen. 1:26), to whom if it is not to Him who is 'the brightness of His…
- The Christian ought not to say anything behind his brother's back with the object of calumniating him, for this is slander, even if what is…
- No Christian ought to think of himself as his own master, but each should rather so think and act as though given by God to…
- Human life is but of brief duration. 'All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass…
More Orthodox Quotes
- 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