Orthodox Quote for June 17
“To be filled with the Spirit is eminently practical, because it means that we are motivated by something different than what motivates the world. We are motivated by re-creation....
Orthodox Quote for June 16
“The object is not to sit and afflict and constrict yourself in order to improve. The object is to live, to study, to pray and to advance in love...
Orthodox Quote for June 15
“The devil never dies. An elder monk used to say, “If you kick a dog a couple of times, it will go away. But the devil does not go...
Orthodox Quote for June 14
“Let us recognize our need to continually stretch again and again in peace towards prayer, repentance, and spiritual life. By placing all our hope in the Lord and in...
Orthodox Quote for June 13
“The remembrance of death is the most important thing in our life. If we live through the prism that today is our last, we would live a completely different...
Orthodox Quote for June 12
“Whereas Peter the apostle was speaking his own tongue, the language was instantaneously transformed in the mind of the hearers. In an ineffable way the Holy Spirit made them...
Orthodox Quote for June 19
“We also have no right to regard material goods as “our property”, because they too are the gifts of God’s love, even if we have earned them through toil...
Daily Devotional for June 12-18
Sunday Acts 9:32 Now it came to pass, as Peter went through all parts of the country, that he also came down to the saints who dwelt in Lydda. 33 There...
Orthodox Quote for June 11
“While objective salvation is granted to every human being, subjective or personal salvation depends on the intent of man. Those who desire to be saved and work toward that...
Orthodox Quote for June 10
“…He Who governs the world and He who will eventually concede or not to whatever happens to the world is the Lord and not any human being. Evil people...