Orthodox Quote for September 21
“When the Lord strikes you with sore affliction or sickness, or misfortune, then be assured that He will also truly send you consolation, and will afterwards bestow upon you...
Orthodox Quote for September 20
“If ninety-nine of us are good and saintly but one of our brothers is far from our solace and support, in sin and darkness, be sure God is not...
Orthodox Quote for September 19
“You must continuously strengthen your faith by recourse to repentance and prayer and by contact with persons who themselves have profound #8221; (Blessed Alexander of Omsk ‘A Primer for...
Orthodox Quote for September 18
“Purification requires the soul to be pure and clean through our own will; divine justice is the abandonment of our own will to the will of God; humility is...
Orthodox Quote for September 17
“The Gospel instructs us that the crosses of everyday life are for our salvation, yet unlike the holy people surrounding Christ’s Nativity, too often, we flee from submission to...
Orthodox Quote for September 16
“You get information from demons until you can’t think or function by yourself, and the end point is allowing them to occupy you forever, whether you have the illusion...
Orthodox Quote for September 15
“Death in Orthodox Christianity is not viewed as the end of our existence. After death, the soul is only temporarily separated from the body. During the first 40 days,...
Daily Devotional for September 15 – 21
Sunday *Wisdom from Orthodox Elders this week Elder St Paisios on Obeying God… “We are truly free, in the spiritual sense, when we obey the will of God. But...
Orthodox Quote for September 14
“…the fire of Pentecost, ‘the grace of the Holy Spirit, is handed down through all generations and enlightens all who obey their spiritual shepherds and teachers,’ the heirs to...
Orthodox Quote for September 13
“We read the Bible personally, but not as isolated individuals. We read as the members of a family, the family of the Orthodox Catholic Church. When reading Scripture, we...