Orthodox Quote for December 19
“When do you not have something that you owe to God? Or when are you without a gift of God, since your daily enjoyment of living is from God?...
Orthodox Quote for December 18
“As long as you remain in this present life, you are walking in the midst of vices, of worldly pressures, which are the shadow of death. Let Christ shine...
Wisdom from Modern Orthodox Elders…
“Do you have a notebook for taking down quotes from Holy Fathers in your reading? Do you always have a book of Holy Fathers that you are reading and...
Orthodox Quote for December 16
“Man needs to show that he wants to spiritually progress, and to attract God, by his labours. For, if man doesn’t do that which he can, God won’t do...
Orthodox Quote for December 15
“The pastures that this good shepherd has prepared for you, in which he has settled you for you to take your fill, are not various kinds of grasses and...
Wisdom from Modern Orthodox Elders…
“… Working animals were taken care of when they grew old and were no longer able to work; they even had a good old age. Back then people didn’t...
Quote for December 14
“Our well-fed bodies decay and emit an offensive odor after death, whilst theirs remained fragrant and flourishing in life as well as after death. It is a wonderful...
Quote for December 13
“We should view the non-Orthodox as people to whom Orthodoxy has not yet been revealed, as people who are potentially Orthodox (if only we ourselves would give them a...
Devotion for Sunday, December 13
Psalm 23 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. 2 He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. 3 He restores...
Wisdom from Modern Orthodox Elders…
“A Christian does not “live in the clouds” as the saying goes. He understands reality and experiences it. What he reads in the Gospel and in the Fathers he...