“The sign of those who have reached perfection is this: if ten times a day they are given over to be burned for the love of their neighbor, they will not be satisfied with that, as Moses, and the … [Read more...]
February 23, 2012
“The sign of those who have reached perfection is this: if ten times a day they are given over to be burned for the love of their neighbor, they will not be satisfied with that, as Moses, and the … [Read more...]

"It is shameful to be proud of the adornments that are not your own, but utter madness to fancy one deserves God's gifts. Be exalted only by such achievements as you had before your birth. But what you received after your birth, as also birth itself, God gave you. Only those virtues which you have obtained without the co-operation of the mind belong to you, because your mind was given to you by … [Read More...]
"There are three things I cannot take in: nondogmatic faith, nonecclesiological Christianity and nonascetic Christianity. These three - the church, dogma, and asceticism - constitute one single life for me." -- Elder Sophrony … [Read More...]
"He cannot have God for his Father who has no the Church for his mother." - St. Cyprian of Carthage … [Read More...]

"It is shameful to be proud of the adornments that are not your own, but utter madness to fancy one deserves God's gifts. Be exalted only by such achievements as you had before your birth. But what … [Read More...]

Hell in the Orthodox conception is a form of redemption, where even those who resist God freely (which, when the creature of time is swallowed up, becomes for eternity) will be burned continually by … [Read More...]
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