Orthodox Quotes - Page 25

• Every affliction tests our will, showing whether it is inclined to good or evil. That is why an unforeseen affliction is called a test, because it enables a man to test his hidden desires.

  Marcus Eremita

  Christian, Men, Evil

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• The Commandments of God are higher than all the treasures of the earth. Whoever has acquired them has received God within himself.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• The Holy Apostle John the Theologian says that the commandments of God are not difficult, but easy (I John, 5:3). But they are only easy because of love, while they are all difficult if there is no love.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• God requires not the doing of the commandments for their own sake, but the correction of the soul, for whose sake He established the commandments.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• In all of our deeds God looks at the intention, whether we do it for His sake, or for the sake of some other intention.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Every time that we sin, we are born of the devil. But every time that we do good, we are born of God.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• We abide in God insofar as we do not sin.

  Venerable Bede

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Do not disdain the commandment to love, for through it you become a son of God, and when you break it, you become a son of Gehenna.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• It is a great good to be given over to the will of God. Then the Lord alone is in the soul, and no other thought, and she prays to God with a pure mind. When the soul is entirely given over to the will of God, then the Lord Himself begins to guide her, and the soul learns directly from God ... A proud man does not with to live according to the will of God. He likes to direct himself, and does not understand that man does not have enough understanding to direct himself without God.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• The Lord greatly loves the repenting sinner and mercifully presses him to His bosom: "Where were you, My child? I was waiting a long time for you." The Lord calles all to Himself with the voice of the Gospel, and his voice is heard in all the world: "Come to me, my sheep. I created you, and I love you. My love for you brought Me to earth, and I suffered all things for the sake of your salvation, and I want you all to know my love, and to say, like the apostles on Tabor: Lord, it is good for us to be with You."

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• What brings us to perfection? An ingrained faith in God, the 'faith that makes real the things for which we hope' (Heb. 11:1), the faith whereby Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain and was commended as righteous (cf. Heb 11:4). It is such faith that fills those assiduous in the search for truth with great aspiration for the exalted gifts of God, and leads them to the spiritual knowledge of created beings; and it pours into their hearts the inexhaustible treasures of the Spirit.

  Niketas Stethatos

  Christian, Spiritual, Real

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• My personal attitude toward atheists is the same attitude that I have toward Christians, and would be governed by a very orthodox text: "By their fruits shall ye know them."

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Christian, Atheist, Attitude

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned in my family. Franklin D. Roosevelt was.

  Nat Hentoff

  Parent, Bars, My Family

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• It is well known that obedience is the chief among the initiatory virtues, for first it displaces presumption and then it engenders humility within us. Thus it becomes, for those who willingly embrace it, a door leading to the love of God? Thus humility should be the first concern of those who are fighting against the presumption of the devil, for as we advance it will be a sure guide to all the paths of virtue.

  Diadochos of Photiki

  Christian, Humility, Fighting

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• [Pope Francis] did something that both his two predecessors had failed to do - John Paul II and Benedict. Francis met with the Russian patriarch of the Orthodox Church.

  Sylvia Poggioli

  Two, Church, John Paul Ii

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I'm not an Orthodox Jew, I don't practise much in the way of Jewish religion, but I am very Jewish and I think it probably does indeed influence what I do.

  Michael Marmot

  Thinking, Doe, Way

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• The saints were people like all of us. Many of them came out of great sins, but by repentance they attained the Kingdom of Heaven. And everyone who comes there comes through repentance, which the merciful Lord has given us through His sufferings.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• If someone has repented once of a sin, and again does the same sin, this is a sign that he has not been cleansed of the causes of the sin, wherefrom, as from a root, the shoots spring forth again.

  Saint Basil

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• At the beginning of the struggle the holy commandments of God must be fulfilled with a certain forcefulness of will (cf. Mt. 11:12); then the Lord, seeing our intention and labour, will grant us readiness of will and gladness in obeying His purposes. For 'it is the Lord who makes ready the will' (Prov. 8:35 LXX), so that we always do what is right joyfully. Then shall we truly feel that 'it is God who energizes in you both the willing and the doing of His purpose' (Phil. 2:13).

  Diadochos of Photiki

  Christian, Struggle, Cfs

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• Whoever hates his sins will stop sinning; and whoever confesses them will receive remission. A man can not abandon the habit of sin if he does not first gain enmity toward sin, nor can he receive remission of sin without confession of sin. For the confession of sin is the cause of true humility.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• From where I sit, it's a superb cabinet [for Donald Trump] so far. A lot of these choices could have been made by Ted Cruz. So you're going to have this shotgun marriage between a very orthodox Republican cabinet and a very unorthodox.

  Rich Lowry

  Choices, Cabinets, Unorthodox

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The Bolshevik revolution was a counter-revolution. Its first moves were to destroy and eliminate every socialist tendency that had developed in the pre-revolutionary period. Their goal was as they said; it wasn't a big secret. They regarded the Soviet Union as sort a backwater. They were orthodox Marxists, expecting a revolution in Germany. They moved toward what they themselves called "state capitalism," then they moved on to Stalinism. They called it democracy and called it socialism. The one claim was as ludicrous as the other.

  Noam Chomsky

  Moving, Goal, Secret

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• If anyone wants one my advise is to go where the orthodox Jews shop, because when it comes to a big black fedora, the guys with ringlets and long black coats definitely know a stylish hat when they see one. You want to get it home and use a hot steaming kettle, and bob's your uncle - you have a hat with all the right curves!

  Terry Pratchett

  Uncles, Home, Curves

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• "I’m not Catholic, I’m not Orthodox…" and I wouldn’t even say Rastafarian, that still divides people, I don’t want to divide people so anything that I say is something that must be so big and great that it did encompass everyone and it’s love.

  Ziggy Marley

  People, Catholic, Want

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• The Holy Ghost carries on the whole Christian system in this earth. Not a Baptism, not a Marriage, not a Sacrament can be administered but by the Holy Ghost... There is no Authority civil or religious: there can be no legitimate Government but what is administered by this Holy Ghost. There can be no salvation without it. All, without it is Rebellion and Perdition, or in more orthodox words Damnation.

  John Adams

  Christian, Religious, Government

  John Adams' letter to Benjamin Rush (December 21, 1809), as quoted in "No, Mr. Beck, John Adams Did Not Think Governments Must Be Administered by the Holy Ghost" by Chris Rodda, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2010.

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