Orthodox Quote for November 20
“…the apostles had the gift of foreign tongues. What is this gift? It is simply the ability to speak in a foreign language without previously studying that language. The...
Orthodox Quote for November 19
“The man of pure heart believes in the Church, admires her spiritual system, discovers God in the Mysteria, in the heights of the theology, in the light of the...
Orthodox Quote for November 18
“Don’t let sin separate us from Christ. When we believe that He loves us and we love Him, we don’t feel strangers and distanced from Him even when we...
Orthodox Quote for November 17
“Now we have to forgive each other whether or not we have any explicit sins or crimes against each other. That reconciliation is another epiphany of the Church as...
November 16 – 22
Sunday 1 John 4:8… Let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth...
Orthodox Quote for November 16
“We must not look at life through the glasses of our passions, nor see how we can “fit” life into being what we would like it to be—whether this...
Orthodox Quote for November 15
“I would insist that the modern attitude towards death (denial) is related to our culture of consumerism. The dead neither sow nor reap (nor shop). Death is a boundary...
Orthodox Quote for November 14
“The truth is that many of us are afraid of quiet time. We must have a radio or TV in the background or we must be talking to someone....
Orthodox Quote for November 13
“Faith is the soul of a nation. When it is extinguished a people becomes a mere lifeless corpse, which is rapidly decomposed and given over to corruption.” (Philaret, Archbishop...
Orthodox Quote for November 12
“Christians did not like to preach only by word: their elevated, holy life was their best preaching…The words of the first Christians about themselves are solid gold. They said...