Orthodox Quote for June 8
“Repentance, together with abstaining from evil, almsgiving, holy prayers, faith, hope in God, and the true love of God and men, will heal and cure our sins if we...
WISDOM FROM MODERN ORTHODOX ELDERS
“… The more people knock the just and honest person down the more the good God lifts him up like a cork. But it takes a lot of patience....
Orthodox Quote for June 7
“It is upon this ordered structure of divine acts that we have been firmly established, so that the grace of God may show itself still more marvelous when, in...
Orthodox Quote for June 6
“Even though they let it be known they were offended by Him, the Pharisees never received an apology from the man who called them on their hypocritical practice of...
WISDOM FROM MODERN ORTHODOX ELDERS
“I tried to give myself over entirely to the love and worship of God. I have consciousness of my sinfulness but I live with hope. It is bad to...
Orthodox Quote for June 5
“…asceticism does not constitute a deprivation of the good things of life, hostility to the body or a disdain towards matter, as some worshipers of the flesh maintain. Asceticism...
Orthodox Devotional for Sunday, June 5
Sunday of the Healing of the Blind Man ST. NIKOLAI VELIMIROVICH: “Oh, if only men would know the power of the forgiveness of sins! Behold, when the sins of...
Orthodox Quote for June 4
“The difference between our age and the apostolic age…is that we, unlike our ancestors, tend to equate faith with internal emotional or intellectual experiences. We think faith is about...
Orthodox Quote for June 3
“I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But...
Orthodox Quote for June 2
“I know that angels visit the services and the meetings of the brethren. What if they should not find me there among them? Will they not say, where is...