Orthodox Quote for July 5
“The world, with its pleasures of foods, entertainment, vacations to beautiful places, etc. is not in itself evil. The Lord does not forbid us to enter into the beauties...
Orthodox Quote for July 4
“In my opinion there are three forms of love: carnal love, which is filled with spiritual germs; worldly love, which is superficial, formal, often hypocritical and shallow; and spiritual...
Orthodox Quote for July 3
“Byzantium [New Rome] lasted for so many centuries because the life of its citizens was Christ-centered and ecclesiastical and this was something which the imperial authorities recognized and adopted,...
Orthodox Quote for July 1
“The Holy Baptist stands at the very end of the Old Testament, but also at the very beginning of the New Testament. That is why he appears at the...
Orthodox Quote for July 2
“…it is a great thing to have humility, to ask the Lord for humility, to bow to the Lord, so that He may see us as humble and bless...
Orthodox Quote for July 1
“Will the devil go out perhaps to the mountains to create temptations? He goes wherever people are struggling for their salvation. And since we, too, are seeking our salvation,...
Orthodox Quote for July 16
“Contemplate the miraculous withering of the unfruitful fig tree (Matthew 21: 19)…How my life too, which has many leaves— bodily cares, desires and thoughts— but is without spiritual #8221;...
Daily Devotional for July 1-7
Sunday Matthew 8:28 When He had come to the other side, to the country of the Gergesenes, there met Him two demon-possessed men, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce,...
Orthodox Quote for June 29
“For human society does not permit the intellect to perceive either its own faults or the wiles of the demons, so as to guard itself against them. Nor, on...
Orthodox Quote for June 28
“Many who have fallen into spiritual delusion, whom the devil has made into false prophets, did not place repentance and the knowledge of their own faults at the foundation...