Orthodox Quote for August 12
“If we do not show love through our deeds—not only in words—in vain do we labor in our struggle, for we are beating the air and are straying from...
Orthodox Quote for August 11
“Freeing ourselves from sin is not an immediate but a gradual process which resembles growing up. Through our perseverance, the purification of the heart is attained to slowly and...
Orthodox Quote for August 10
“The other religions are human, hollow. They do not know the greatness of the Triune God. They do not know that our aim, our destiny, is to become gods...
Orthodox Quote for August 9
“Many people take no account of their own gifts; they see only the gifts of others and are overcome by envy. They view themselves as having been wronged, as...
Daily Devotional for August 9 – 15
Sunday Romans 8:12 We are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through...
Orthodox Quote for August 8
“If a person pays attention to himself and lives a decent life according to God’s commandments, then he feels the presence of God inside him, beside him and in...
Orthodox Quote for August 7
“…if we don’t want to lose out in vain, worldly gains, how much more must we be careful not to harm ourselves spiritually! Worldly people seek material gain and...
Orthodox Quote for August 6
“’The heavens’ also mean the virtues, and the keys to the heavens are labors. For by laboring we enter into each of the virtues as if by means of...
Orthodox Quote for August 5
“’Go ye therefore, and leach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all...
Orthodox Quote for August 4
“Christian religion is not a certain philosophic system, about which learned men, trained in metaphysical studies, argue and then either espouse or reject, according to the opinion each one...