Orthodox Quote for June 18
“It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes… we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to...
Orthodox Quote for June 17
“St. John Chrysostom says that the Church lives only in times of persecution. In another place he says that the worst kind of persecution the Church can endure is...
Orthodox Quote for June 16
“If you humble yourself, you will be raised up; if you are proud and lofty, you will be bent down, for God will certainly find a weight to bend...
WISDOM FROM MODERN ORTHODOX ELDERS
“Everywhere today the disease of disbelief has entered deeply into the minds, and most of all the hearts, of men. Our Orthodoxy, even when it is outwardly still correct,...
Orthodox Quote for June 15
“We are specifically created by God and actually man is the summit of creation. Nothing created is greater than man. Between us and the animals is a huge chasm....
WISDOM FROM MODERN ORTHODOX ELDERS
“Have you not heard that paradise is open again? Not paradise on earth but in heaven, not in time but in eternity… If you have heard this but you...
Orthodox Quote for June 14
“…the shedding of the habit (or, for Orthodox clergy, the cassock) is a mistake. It is true that the monastic or the clergyman knows who they are, and do...
Orthodox Quote for June 13
“For no excuse will abide you in the day of judgment, when you will be judged by your own sentence, and as you have dealt towards others, will be...
Orthodox Quote for June 12
“We do not think about how to change the world with our own powers. We strive to receive strength from God in order to act at all times with...
Orthodox Devotional for Sunday, June 12
ST. AUGUSTINE: He does not say, That I and they maybe one, though He might have said so in the sense, that He was the head of the Church,...