Orthodox Quotes - Page 35

• All my life I have prayed to God that I should remain religiously orthodox, culturally conservative, politically liberal and economically pragmatic.

  Richard John Neuhaus

  Religion, Conservative, Should

  "Lutheran Minister Prodding U.S. Catholics to Lead Christian Revitalization" by Peter Steinfels, www.nytimes.com. 1988.

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• The best moments on earth are those during which we meditate upon heavenly things in general, when we recognize or defend the truth, that heavenly dweller and denizen. Only then do we truly live. Therefore, the essential interests of the soul require that we should oftener rise above the earth, upwards to heaven, where is our true life, our true country, which shall have no end.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Country, Heaven

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• The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals.

  Jacques Barzun

  Battle, Genius, Inspired

  Jacques Barzun (1984). “Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940-1980”, p.35, University of Chicago Press

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• Obedience is necessary not only for monks, but for all people. Even the Lord was obedient. The proud and self-regarding do not allow grace to live in them, and therefore they never have spiritual peace, while in the obedient soul the grace of the Holy Spirit enters easily and gives joy and peace. Whoever bears even a little grace in himself joyfully submits himself to all direction. He knows that God directs even the heavens and the netherworld, and himself, and his business, and everything in the world, and therefore he is always at peace.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Spiritual

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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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• The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.

  Boris Pasternak

  Writing, Age, Faust

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• It is no credit to the orthodox that they do not now believe all the absurdities that were believed 150 years ago. The gradual emasculation of the Christian doctrine has been effected in spite of the most vigorous resistance, and solely as the result of the onslaughts of freethinkers.

  Bertrand Russell

  Christian, Believe, Years

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Why I Am Not a Christian”, p.60, Lulu Press, Inc

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• At certain times and in certain schools it is orthodox to be a rebel; and in general it is a very poor class that does not contain at least three pupils who can be counted on to oppose the teachers authority and loudly and persistently to question everything he says.

  Gilbert Highet

  Teacher, School, Class

  GILBERT HIGHET (1950). “THE ART OF TEACHING”

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• A passion is a contranatural movement of the soul or an irrational love, or an blindfold hatred toward any material thing, or because of it: for example, for food, or for women, or for riches, or for worldly glory, or any other sensible thing; or for the sake of such things, as in a senseless hatred for someone on account of the things mentioned above.

  Maximus the Confessor

  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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• By obedience a man is guarded against pride. Prayer is given for the sake of obedience. The grace of the Holy Spirit is also given for obedience. This is why obedience is higher than prayer and fasting.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.

  Dani Shapiro

  Mother, Religious, Father

  "Devotion: An interview with Dani Shapiro". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. April 4, 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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• 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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• 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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