Quote by Gregory Feifer

A horrible human toll the Russian Orthodox Church suffered throughout almost the entire 20th century. The Church is just rising from its knees. Our…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The way that Russian Orthodox services work generally, and certainly the way that this worked, is that it goes on for hours and hours,…

— Andrew Solomon

“I did see, however, what the Russian church had lost in its first decade of "freedom." Under communism, the church had found a way…

— Nik Ripken

Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed.

— Richard John Neuhaus

“In this way, the Church was a true reflection of the whole of Russian society. The KGB and the Russian people had penetrated each…

— Oliver Bullough

“...the Russian church had lost in its first decade of 'freedom' what Soviet believers had managed to hold on to under communisn for most…

— Nik Ripkin

“I have found that the average Russian holds the United States and the American people in very high regard. Many Russians also remain deeply…

— Glenn Meade

Orthodox churches, autocracy and national traditions are supposed to form a new national ideology in Russia. This would mean that Russia would be overtaken…

— Vladimir Sorokin

“Orthodoxy is life. If we don’t live Orthodoxy, we simply are not Orthodox, no matter what formal beliefs we might hold.”

— Seraphim Rose. Leaving the Orthodox Worldview

“Listen, Parfyon, a few moments ago you asked me a question, and this is my answer: the essence of religious feeling has nothing to…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Russia is an Eastern Orthodox country.

— Vladimir Zhirinovsky

“The most basic, most rudimentary spiritual need of the Russian people is the need for suffering, ever-present and unquenchable, everywhere and in everything.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky