Orthodox Quote for June 18
“It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes… we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to...
Orthodox Quote for June 17
“St. John Chrysostom says that the Church lives only in times of persecution. In another place he says that the worst kind of persecution the Church can endure is...
Orthodox Quote for June 16
“If you humble yourself, you will be raised up; if you are proud and lofty, you will be bent down, for God will certainly find a weight to bend...
Orthodox Quote for June 15
“We are specifically created by God and actually man is the summit of creation. Nothing created is greater than man. Between us and the animals is a huge chasm....
Orthodox Quote for June 14
“…the shedding of the habit (or, for Orthodox clergy, the cassock) is a mistake. It is true that the monastic or the clergyman knows who they are, and do...
Orthodox Quote for June 13
“For no excuse will abide you in the day of judgment, when you will be judged by your own sentence, and as you have dealt towards others, will be...
Orthodox Quote for June 12
“We do not think about how to change the world with our own powers. We strive to receive strength from God in order to act at all times with...
Orthodox Devotional for Sunday, June 12
ST. AUGUSTINE: He does not say, That I and they maybe one, though He might have said so in the sense, that He was the head of the Church,...
Orthodox Quote for June 11
“The time of the end, though it seems to be near, we do not know. However close, it is still future, and in the present we have only the...
Orthodox Quote for June 10
“Your believing in Christ’s resurrection from the dead means that you believe in your own resurrection and so in the resurrection of the world from every death. Or rather,...