Orthodox Quote for April 8
“St. Gregory taught that we cannot experience God through education, philosophy, intellectual discussion and debates. God is a person with whom we are to be in a relationship, not...
Orthodox Quote for April 7
“Christ came because of God’s love towards the human race: “For so God loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son” (John 3:16); the restoration of the...
Wisdom from Modern Orthodox Elders
“By the presence of the Jesus Prayer man is not given over to temptation which he is expecting, because its presence is sober watchfulness and its essence is prayer;...
Orthodox Quote for April 6
“Christ calls us all throughout the ages not only to meet Him, but to live His own life within the Church He Himself founded. The consistency between our acts...
Orthodox Quote for April 5
“Righteous people never have enough of prayer; instead, being in need and taking advantage of goodwill, they reap the fruit of prayer and continue offering supplication, realizing as they...
Orthodox Quote for April 4
“…giving in to the spirit of idle talk, we speak to make ourselves look better, which leads us to be judgmental and slanderous. We live in an age of...
Wisdom from Modern Orthodox Elders
“They take a spiritual book, sit comfortably, and begin reading. “Oh, I profited from that,” they say. It would be better to say, “I enjoyed myself, I spent my...
Orthodox Quote for April 3
“Then they will call upon me, and I will not listen…” You see how they cry out that it be opened for them; driven by sorrow at their rejection,...
Sunday Devotion for April 3
St. John Chrysostom on Mark 8:34-9:1 “And this He says, because it may happen that a man may suffer and yet not follow Christ, that is, when he does...
Orthodox Quote for April 2
“Some agree that the world in general is not ruled by accidents, but by God. However, they think that God does not care about each and every one, because...