Orthodox Quote for December 23
“If we try to pray without fasting, our prayers will be weak, without progress, without the fervor, concentration and contrition that is so pleasing to God. If we try...
Orthodox Quote for December 22
“Each of us is called to offer our environment, our work, our day-to-day, our spaces and places, our time, our very breath, back to God through virtue, generosity, thanksgiving,...
Daily Devotional for December 22 – 28
Sunday Luke 2: And it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. 2 This census first...
Orthodox Quote for December 29
“Let us now therefore be anxious we shall there gain nothing by it, but tormenting ourselves. For whereas He gives both when we take thought, and when we do...
Orthodox Quote for December 21
“The fourth reason that our resolution to lead a better life often fails, lies in the fact that we want immediately to become saints. Many people, when they once...
Orthodox Quote for December 20
“Whereas most civilized people (and even wild pagan tribes) had a fairly good sense of right and wrong and decent behavior up at least to the Second World War,...
Orthodox Quote for December 19
“The rule of economy and the authority of self-restraint befits all, and most of all him who stands highest in honour; so that no love for his treasures may seize...
Orthodox Quote for December 18
“Has someone struck me unjustly? ‘Glory be to you, O Lord! Perhaps I may be able to pay off a sin; I, too, had once struck someone.’ Have I...
Orthodox Quote for December 17
“This is the mystery of heaven and earth intermingling! When you walk into the temple, as soon as you feel your foot hit the floor of the temple—every time—let...
Orthodox Quote for December 16
“Treat others with the respect due to heirs of the celestial kingdom, yet with the caution you would employ handling #8221; (Blessed Alexander of Omsk ‘A Primer for the...