Orthodox Quote for August 30
“…experienced Christians have already developed a skill, and many of their actions are stereotyped: the lists of sins that they bring to confession are very repetitive, they choose a...
Orthodox Quote for August 29
“I want to tell you that this magnificent event of the transfiguration has in a way been repeated many many millions of times over the last 2000 years. Each...
Orthodox Quote for August 28
“The more you suffer, the stronger your soul becomes, because God wants everyone to be saved and allows them to do what they can. So I’m learning to endure...
Orthodox Quote for August 27
“When we pray each one separately, we are weak. When we gather all together, however, then we become stronger and draw God’s compassion to a greater degree. The apostle...
Daily Devotional for August 27 – September 3
Sunday Luke 12: 49 “I came to send fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! 50 But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and...
Orthodox Quote for August 26
“We should not hasten to offer our own explanations of “difficult” passages, but should first try to familiarize ourselves with what the Holy Fathers have said about these passages,...
Orthodox Quote for August 25
“Letters cannot be written on air; they have to be inscribed on some material if they are to have any permanence. Similarly, we should weld our hard-won watchfulness to...
Orthodox Quote for August 24
“Orthodox Christians themselves so often discourage faith in their midst, waste precious time and God-given freedom, fail to conduct warfare against self-pity, self-justification, and self-satisfaction, and are even embarrassed...
Orthodox Quote for August 23
“…he told us of a spiritual struggler, who, when lying down to sleep would be besieged by demons that gave him unclean thoughts. To which he reacted by exclaiming:...
Orthodox Quote for August 22
“But as the end of the world draws near, many things are about to come upon us which were not before, to wit, changes in the air, and terrors...