Wisdom from Modern Orthodox Elders
“You will not fix the Church or the world. Whereas you will be corrected, perfected and enlightened so as to enlighten those who are willing… Misfortune will bring many...
Orthodox Quote for April 9
“A prayer rule that is drudgery and continually dry is no prayer rule at all, for it is not producing prayer. Prayer is communion with God, not saying words....
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,...