Orthodox Quotes - Page 34

• Some passions are bodily, other spiritual. Bodily passions have their sources in the body, while spiritual ones come from external things. But love and temperance cut out both the one and the other: Love cuts out spiritual passions, and temperance bodily ones.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Inspirational, Christian, Spiritual

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• Unclean spirits increase the passions in us, making use of our negligence, and inciting them. But the angels decrease our passions, inciting us to the perfection of virtue.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• It is one thing to be delivered from bad thoughts, and another to be freed from the passions. Often people are delivered from thoughts, when they do not have before their eyes those things which produce passion. But the passions for them remain hidden in the soul, and when the things appear again the passions are revealed. Therefore it is necessary to guard the mind when these things appear, and to know toward which things you have a passion.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• The mind of a man that loves God does not fight against things or thoughts about them, but against the passions that are connected with these thoughts. That is, he does not struggle against a woman, or against one who has insulted him, and not against the images of them, but against the passions that are aroused by these images.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• The worst kind of sin is not to acknowledge that you are sinful.

  Caesarius of Arles

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Without temptations, it is not possible to learn the wisdom of the Spirit. It is not possible that Divine love be strengthened in your soul. Before temptations, a man prays to God as a stranger. When temptations are allowed to come by the love of God, and he does not give in to them, then he stands before God as a sincere friend. For in fulfilling the will of God, he has made war on the enemy of God and conquered him.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• I really do feel that these people are brothers and sisters in God's family. I am looking to build bridges with the Orthodox Church, looking to build bridges with the Catholic Church, with the Anglican church.

  Rick Warren

  Brother, Bridges, People

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• The heresy of one age is the orthodox belief and "only infallible rule" of the nest.

  Theodore Parker

  Age, Nests, Belief

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• From the 3rd century onwards, orthodox Christianity, based on a Hebrew story and worshipping the Jew Jesus, also led many campaigns of anti-Semitism.

  Ivor Grattan-Guinness

  Jesus, Campaigns, Stories

  "The Rainbow of Mathematics: A History of the Mathematical Sciences". Book by Ivor Grattan-Guinness, p. 127, 200.

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• The Divine Comedy is a political poem and when you say poetry is not about - he's always quoted out of context, that "poetry makes nothing happen," that doesn't mean you shrug your shoulders and don't try to make anything happen. And Dante felt that poetry was engaged, there was a point of view; it's not my point of view, it's orthodox medieval Christianity, and I have my troubles with that. He didn't feel that you could just rule out so important a section of life - we care about these things, and it's out of caring about them that we write poetry.

  W. S. Merwin

  Writing, Mean, Caring

  "An Interview with W. S. Merwin, Poet Laureate". Interview with Ed Rampell, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. October 25, 2010.

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• As the head of a religious party, I am not in favor of civil marriage or the full recognition of non-Orthodox converts in Israel.

  Ayelet Shaked

  Religious, Party, Israel

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It's something fundamental to me, human rights that people are equal under law simply because they are human beings. And I can no more imagine falling in love with someone who believed, for instance, as Orthodox Jews do, that women are unclean during their menstrual periods.

  Susan Jacoby

  Falling In Love, Rights, Law

  "'Strange Gods' Chronicles The History Of Secularism And Conversion". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 17, 2016.

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• I think it's Greek Orthodox - who totally believes in the pope, not anything about attacking the United States, which needs to be because we're not recognizing the dignity of all people.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The orthodox view of colour experience assumes that, when we see a colour difference between two surfaces viewed side-by-side, this is because we have different responses to each of the two surfaces viewed singly. Since we can detect colour differences between something like ten million different surfaces, this implies that we are capable of ten million colour responses to surfaces viewed singly.

  David Papineau

  Views, Two, Differences

  "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.

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• God tested Abraham. That is, he sent him afflictions for his benefit, not so that he could find out what sort of man he was, for God knows everything, but so that He give him the means to perfect his faith.

  Marcus Eremita

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• The churches that are growing and thriving are churches that I would call evangelical and orthodox for the most part in their beliefs. They are churches that tend to evangelize ... and encourage their people to share their faith. These are the churches that are actually growing. The ones that are shrinking are the ones that are compromising and watering down what the word of God says.

  Greg Laurie

  People, Church, Shrinking

  "Greg Laurie: Watered-Down Mainline Christianity Is a Sign of the End Times (Interview)". Interview with Samuel Smith, www.christianpost.com. August 29, 2016.

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• It is God, Who is merciful and grants everyone what he needs, Who is building him up when He gives him more than he needs; in doing so He shows the abundance of His love for men and teaches him to give thanks. When He does not grant him what he needs, He makes him compensate for the thing he needs through the working of the mind and teaches him patience.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Christian, Men, Giving

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

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• Let us be convinced that nothing can happen to us apart from the providence of God.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Christian, Providence, Happens

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

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• In the measure that we pay attention and take care to carry out what we hear, God will always enlighten us and make us understand His will.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Christian, Attention, Care

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

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• The more one is united to his neighbor the more he is united to God.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Christian, Neighbor, United

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

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• Who hated sin more than the saints? But they did not hate the sinners at the same time, nor condemn them, nor turn away from them. But they suffered with them, admonished them, comforted them. gave them remedies as sickly members, and did all they could to heal them.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Christian, Hate, Saint

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

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• If we have true love with sympathy and patient labor, we shall not go about scrutinizing our neighbor's shortcomings.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Christian, Patient, Neighbor

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

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• The grace of God comes swiftly to the soul when endurance is no longer possible.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Christian, Grace, Soul

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

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• By keeping the Commandments the soul is purified and the mind too is enlightened, and starts to function as nature intended it to. 'The command of the Lord gives light and enlightens the eyes' (Ps. 19:8).

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Christian, Eye, Light

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• If a man really sets his heart upon the will of God, God will enlighten a little child to tell that man what is His will. But if a man does not truly desire the will of God, even if he goes in search of a prophet, God will put into the heart of the prophet a reply like the deception in his own heart.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Christian, Children, Heart

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