Orthodox Quote for July 4
“Freedom is not going where you want to go or doing what you want to do. Freedom is to be free from the passions. One is free who knows...
Orthodox Quote for July 3
“The first reason is expressed by one very meaningful saying: ‘There’s a lot you don’t know and everything is much more serious than you #8217; We often mistake our...
Orthodox Quote for July 2
“…throughout the centuries the Orthodox Church keeps the authentic teaching as it was handed down by the apostles intact…Today, only the Orthodox Church has this apostolic property, only the...
Daily Devotional for July 2-8
Sunday Matthew 8:5-13 The Centurion who asks Jesus to heal is servant. A centurion (a Gentile) commanded 100 men in a Roman legion. Jesus is the Savior of all,...
Orthodox Quote for July 1
“Worry about food, drink and clothing must not paralyse our spiritual life due to an obsessive preoccupation with passing material goods…when we take too much care of the material,...
Orthodox Quote for June 30
“The sin for which God calls me to repent is personal sin—stuff that I actually did. And personal sin feels different too: when I am lazy, or lustful, or...
Orthodox Quote for June 29
“You said it* like a hurried chanter. Listen to what fearful things this hymn says: Christ by His Resurrection did not cross us over a lake, over a crack...
Orthodox Quote for June 28
“And if people had peace neither with God nor among themselves, then there could be no peace in their souls, for his conscience convicted the fallen man unceasingly for...
Orthodox Quote for June 27
“You will receive divine aid in direct proportion to the sacrifice and prayer you undertake for yourself or your fellowmen.” (Elder Paisios in ‘Passions and Virtues’)
Orthodox Quote for June 26
“Do not shift everything off on the clergy; you can do much yourselves, you know each other better than we do.” (St. John Chrysostom Homily 30 on Hebrews)