Elder Anthimos+ on True Repentance
“Today young people have an egotistical outlook. They do not easily agree to submit to the Church. Every youth has his own understanding. All of them are unsubmissive and...
Orthodox Quote for August 28
“Don’t be troubled if you don’t feel the love of God in yourself, but think about the Lord, that He is merciful, and guard yourself from sins, and the...
Orthodox Quote for August 27
“…God did not create man the way He created the rest of nature, but in a particular manner. And above all, He gave him authority over all of nature....
Orthodox Quote for August 26
“We must rejoice when others do not acknowledge our efforts and do not repay us, because then these efforts will be taken into account by God, and He will...
Fr. George Maximov on Apostasy and Christian Struggle
“Christianity is not simply the acceptance of some abstract God and a set of popular moral prescriptions. Christians believe in Jesus Christ—God Who became Man, Who does not simply...
Orthodox Quote for August 25
“Just as people do not enter a war in order to enjoy war, but in order to be saved from war, so we do not enter this world in...
Daily Devotional for August 25-31
Sunday 1 Corinthians 10 I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; and were all...
Orthodox Quote for August 24
“Only man of deep and sincere faith can be truly free. Dependence on the Lord God is the only dependence that does not degrade a man, nor turn him...
Elder Ephraim of Arizona on Trials
“If God did not consider us His children, He would not have sent us trials but would have abandoned us as we are: spiritually uneducated, without any solicitude. In...
Orthodox Quote for August 23
“The rationalization (secular/rationalist) of the gospel has also given rise to modern “evangelism.” If no particular change is required in a human being in order to perceive the truth...