Orthodox Quotes - Page 20

• [Orthodox] are brothers, but I must respect them.

  Pope Francis

  Brother

  Source: www.catholicnewsagency.com

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• God will cleanse your sins if you yourself are dissatisfied with yourself and will keep on changing until you are perfect.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Orthodox Jews, or, as they are known in the Talmud, the Really Chosen Ones, are committed to the idea that the entire Torah was dictated by God verbatim to Moses at Mount Sinai... Other forms of Judaism dispute this claim, although it does explain certain passages in the first Torah, such as, I'm sorry, am I boring you? and What do you like better, Moses, Lord Almighty or Big Hoohah?

  Jon Stewart

  Sorry, Ideas, Doe

  "Naked Pictures of Famous People". Book by Jon Stewart, 1998.

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• Another thing I think should be avoided is extremely intense ideology because it cabbages up one's mind. You see it a lot with T.V. preachers (many have minds made of cabbage) but it can also happen with political ideology. When you're young it's easy to drift into loyalties and when you announce that you're a loyal member and you start shouting the orthodox ideology out, what you're doing is pounding it in, pounding it in, and you're gradually ruining your mind. So you want to be very, very careful of this ideology. It's a big danger.

  Charlie Munger

  Loyalty, Thinking, Political

  USC Law Commencement Speech, genius.com. May 1, 2007.

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• When the devil looks at a man who sincerely desires not to sin, he is not so unintelligent as to suggest to him (as he would to a hardened sinner) that he go and commit fornication or go and steal. He knows we do not want that and he does not set out to tell us something we do not want to hear; but he finds out that little bit of self-will or self-righteousness and through that, with the appearance of well doing, he will do us harm.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Christian, Men, Self

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• Self-indulgence takes many forms. A man may be self-indulgent in speech, in touch, in sight. From self-indulgence a man comes to idle speech and worldly talk, to buffoonery and cracking indecent jokes. There is self-indulgence in touching without necessity, making mocking signs with the hands, pushing for a place, snatching up something for oneself, approaching someone else shamelessly. All these things come from not having the fear of God in the soul and from these a man comes little by little to perfect contempt.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Christian, Men, Self

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• Only the Holy Spirit can purify the intellect, for unless a greater power comes and overthrows the despoiler, what he has taken captive will never be set free (cf. Lk. 11:21-22). In every way, therefore, and especially through peace of soul, we must make ourselves a dwelling-place for the Holy Spirit.

  Diadochos of Photiki

  Christian, Taken, Dwelling Place

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• Sin is one thing but instinctive reaction or passion is another. These are our reactions: pride, anger, sexual indulgence, hate, greed, and so on. The corresponding sins are the gratification of these passions: when a man acts and brings into corporeal reality those works which were suggested to him by his desires. It is impossible to exist without desires arising, but not to give way to them is by no means impossible.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Christian, Hate, Passion

  Saint Dorotheus (of Gaza) (1977). “Discourses and Sayings”

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• Have you ever dated a Goth chick for four or five months until you realized she was just an Orthodox Jew? They have the same costumes.

  Dana Gould

  Dating, Four, Months

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• I actually performed at an orthodox Jewish wedding, where the men were separated from the women, but they both came together to not enjoy what I was talking about.

  Andy Kindler

  Men, Talking, Together

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• If, at the time when the mind is praying it is distracted by any extraneous thought or worry about anything, then this prayer is not called pure.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• I decided to go into politics because my children are growing up, and I became worried about the ways things are being handled in this country. I felt there's a lost generation of people who feel misrepresented, and that they're doing their best for the country but the country is not doing its best for them. We are all looking at our children and wondering whether or not they will see their future in Israel. They looked at the country before the last elections and saw it becoming more and more Orthodox. There was a strong sense of unfairness.

  Yair Lapid

  Country, Strong, Children

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Whoever wants to approach prayer without a guide, and proudly thinks that he can learn from books, and won't go to an elder, is already halfway into delusion. But the Lord helps the humble, and if there is no experienced guide, and he goes to a confessor, whoever he may be, then the Lord will cover him because of his humility.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Give your intentions in prayer to God, Who knows everyone, even before our birth. And do not ask that everything will be according to your will, because a man does not know what is profitable for him. But say to God: Let Thy will be done! For He does everything for our benefit.

  Gennadius of Constantinople

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• [Sviatoslav] Schevchuk, in the dogmatic part declares himself to be a son of the Church and in communion with the bishop of Rome and the Church. He speaks of the Pope and his closeness of the Pope and of himself, his faith, and also of the Orthodox people there. The dogmatic part, there's no difficulty. He's Orthodox in the good sense of the word, that is in Catholic doctrine, no.

  Pope Francis

  Son, Rome, People

  Source: www.catholicnewsagency.com

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• The dynamically orthodox orders of religious women will continue to grow, and the dying orders, which long ago opted for the lightest of Catholic Lite, will continue to die.

  George Weigel

  Religious, Long Ago, Order

  Source: eppc.org

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• Shari'a is not just the Qur'an, you see Shari'a is comprised according to all the doctrines. There's consensus and analogy - argument by analogy. These are the four components in the Shari'a. An orthodox Sunni would not accept that the Shari'a was simply comprised of the Qur'an itself and actually there are people who say that it's heretical to believe that. They have to say that because if they don't say that then they would have to accept that, for example, stoning is not a punishment which appears in the Qur'an - it doesn't.

  Sadakat Kadri

  Believe, People, Argument

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The short-term impact is that people are encouraged to give the Church another look. It's up to the liveliest parts of the Church - the dynamically orthodox parts of the Church - to seize that opportunity.

  George Weigel

  Opportunity, Impact, Giving

  Source: eppc.org

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• We have the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church talking about how gay marriage is a sign of the apocalypse, or Russian TV talking about how meteorites are coming to punish Russians for homosexuality.

  Masha Gessen

  Gay, Church, Apocalypse

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• One of the reasons they didn't go to Bosnia, bin Laden has explained extensively, was because they couldn't establish a base anywhere. Not in Catholic Croatia. Not in Orthodox Serbia. So they sent some trainers and a lot of money.

  Michael Scheuer

  Catholic, Bosnia, Croatia

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The prayer of one who does not consider himself a sinner is not accepted by the Lord.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Just saw an orthodox Jewish kid do 3 pull-ups on the scaffolding. Shattering the previous record.

  Gary Gulman

  Kids, Records, Pull Ups

  Twitter post from Oct 28, 2013

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• It's not about terror or anything else, it's about politics, and so it becomes more about politics than it does about faith. Orthodox rabbis - that is about faith. There's not a single Orthodox rabbi on this list. This is all Reformed rabbis that were - that made this list.

  Glenn Beck

  Doe, Lists, Made

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• In the emerging culture, darkness represents spirituality. We see this in Buddhist temples, as well as Catholic and orthodox churches. Darkness indicates that something serious is happening.

  Dan Kimball

  Buddhist, Catholic, Darkness

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• It's nice for me to have a ballet as a kind of platform for creativity, because unlike modern dance or contemporary dance or downtown dance, ballet is formalized, and there's something orthodox about it that I like. I like that there's less emphasis on subversion and innovation. I actually think that my musical vernacular or my musical voice is also less inclined toward innovation and subversion. I think I'm a traditionalist.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Nice, Creativity, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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