Orthodox Quote for June 5
“Christ did not come to be the Chief of the Moral Police. He came to unite us to heaven. He came so that we could participate in the Divine...
Orthodox Quote for June 4
“If you submit to someone, you either have to hold him in respect or have fear of him. Submission out of respect is spiritual, while that out of fear...
Elder Ephraim on Death
“When we remember death, we find an excellent guide that helps us discover the truth of things. Death says, “Why are you treasuring things up, why are you proud,...
Orthodox Quote for June 3
” Sensuality and pride, two ways of serving one’s personal “self,” are those very attributes that we know were manifested by the first-created people in the commission of original...
Orthodox Daily Devotional for June 3-9
Sunday Matthew 12 32 “Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. 33 But whoever denies Me before men, him I...
Orthodox Quote for June 2
“We lose people because of the lack of a true spiritual upbringing. A man without a correct spiritual basis is easily deluded. It’s easy for him to believe that...
Orthodox Quote for June 1
“God in order to punish as well as cure our readiness for pleasure, established pain and death into human nature, to follow it everywhere and appear unwillingly. Because human...
Orthodox Quote for May 31
“It goes without saying that we can never be righteous in the same full way that God is righteous. The difference between God’s righteousness and ours is the difference...
Orthodox Quote for May 30
“If you retain your own will, you cast out the will of God and hinder divine grace.” (Elder St Paisios in ‘Athonite Elders’)
On the Martyrs…
“One marvels sometimes. What gave them such vigor to carry out such superhuman struggles? This is what really concerns us. We end up wondering sometimes: ‘Why can’t we do...