Orthodox Quote for February 11
“In reaching the place where it is written, “And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors,” we have to think whether we have offended anyone in any...
St. Nikolai Velimirovich on Immersion in God
“The very essence of life is mystic and religious. What is a man or a civilization without mysticism and religion? They are like a painted landscape on paper. You...
Orthodox Quote for February 10
“In the 1990s, everyone was mocking non-Churched people, who gravely stood at service in Orthodox churches. They diligently but awkwardly crossed themselves, bowed out of place, and obviously had...
Orthodox Daily Devotional for February 10-16
Sunday 1 Timothy 4:9-15 (Epistle) 9 This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance. For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in...
Orthodox Quote for February 9
“…after the Judgment, all of the sinners will be bodily cast into eternal fire, and into the outer darkness, outside of God, where the undying worm will continually consume...
Elder Joseph the Hesychast+ on Remembering Death
“…blessed is he who remembers his death day and night and pro pares himself to meet it. For it has a habit of coming joyfully to those who wait...
Orthodox Quote for February 8
“…if a person deliberately conceals sins during confession, the confession is considered invalid, and moreover instead of healing they fall into a double sin: a sin of skepticism or...
Orthodox Quote for February 7
“It is the same to the Lord to give flesh to any creature He likes, either to an animal or a plant, as it would be to me to...
Orthodox Quote for February 6
“And so, let us pray to the Lord that He send this country ‘a plenitude of the earthly fruits, fair weather, timely rain and wind, and preserve it from...
Elder St Epiphanios on the ‘Truth’
“Because the truth is most certainly one; truths cannot be many in number. The thing is, who is the possessor of the truth? That is the major question. Hence, it is not...