Orthodox Quote for December 30
“The heavenly knowledge to which the ascetics of old attained does not differ from the heavenly knowledge to which the ascetics of today attain. For, as Christ is the...
Orthodox Quote for December 29
“God wants from us our good intentions, our good will, which will be expressed by even our limited but full of philotimo spiritual struggle, and the awareness of our...
Orthodox Quote for December 28
“When we are confronted by the ruins of human love and find ourselves completely broken, then two solutions can be given: either we turn to God with our pain,...
Orthodox Quote for December 26
“Christ is born, and just as the shepherds we will go out glorifying and praising God for all that we have seen in the light of this holy Feast…As...
Orthodox Quote for December 27
“The world longs for authentic love but seems to remain mired in the global tragedies that we witness every day. In our horizontal and human relations with one another,...
Orthodox Quote for December 25
“Let us glorify God! With the coming of the Son of God in the flesh upon the earth, with His offering Himself up as a sacrifice for the sinful...
Orthodox Quote for December 24
“We should regard Christ as our friend. … With familiarity, love and trust let us run to Him — not with fear that He will punish us, but with...
Daily Devotional for December 24-30
Sunday Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: After His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the...
Orthodox Quote for December 23
“How very careful we must be not to condemn! How very much we wrong our neighbor when we condemn him! Yet, in reality, we do not wrong others, but...
Orthodox Quote for December 22
“History has proved that a great man is impossible and, even more, undesirable, and that a saintly man is both possible and desirable. It is proved also that a...