Orthodox Quote for September 4
“…this older generation has fed, protected, clothed, and educated you with their labor for this. Do not boast on the branches, light leaf, in the impulses of fanciful self-conceit,...
Orthodox Quote for September 3
“What happens to those who have never heard of Jesus? Will God condemn people to hell for not believing in someone they have never heard of? First, people are...
Orthodox Quote for September 2
“Everything that has been legislated against God was presented as social progress: adultery, and abortion, and automatic divorce. Now, “homosexual marriage” will accelerate this “progress.” We are falling lower...
Orthodox Quote for September 1
“Living in a non-Orthodox society we also succumb in many ways to the more prevailing Protestant attitude of ‘once saved, always saved’ instead of seeing ourselves as sinners who...
Daily Devotional for September 1 – 7
Sunday ++Readings this will from Bishop Fulton Sheen’s ‘Life of Christ’ She never speaks again in Scripture [Mary after speaking to the servants]. Seven times she had spoken in...
Orthodox Quote for August 31
“For example, we resolved to withdraw from our natural inclination to become angry. In order to turn away from anger we must quietly endure a lot of what is...
Orthodox Quote for August 30
“Conscience in men is nothing else but the voice of the omnipresent God moving in the heart–the Lord knows all …. Watch your heart throughout your life; examine it,...
Orthodox Quote for August 29
“Those who only hear about spiritual meditation and prayer and have no direct knowledge of it are like men blind from birth, who hear about the sunshine without ever...
Orthodox Quote for August 28
“Let no one enter this sacred area having earthly cares or distractions or fears. Once we have left all these outside the gates of the church, then let distractions...
Orthodox Quote for August 27
“Prayer comprises the complete fulfillment of the commandments; for there is nothing higher than love for God. (Isaiah the Solitary, Philokalia Vol 1)