Quotes About Eastern Orthodoxy

#1. Our life depends on the kind of thoughts we nurture. If our thoughts are peaceful, calm, meek, and kind, then that is what our life is like. If our attention is turned to the circumstances in which we live, we are drawn into a whirlpool of thoughts and can have neither peace nor tranquility.

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#2. Righteousness acts never in its own interest, but in the interest of fellow men.

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#3. When he shut himself in his apartment he found that he hoped he was waiting for nothing at all.

Ramsey Campbell

#4. crowning the ramparts, drawing an uneven star shape around the entire model. She finds the opening atop the walls where four ceremonial cannons point to

Anthony Doerr

#5. God's love for the biggest sinner is greater than the love of the holiest man for God

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#6. If you will have patience in difficulties you know the Holy Spirit is within you, if you will also have the strength to be thankful in troubles than is when the Holy Spirit shines through you.

Arsenie Boca

#7. 'You know Bobby, when I was your age I'd drive the ball right over those trees at the corner.' Feeling challenged Mr. Cole hit a big driver right into those big trees. Snead then said 'Of course, when I was your age, those trees were only 10 feet high.'

Sam Snead

#8. Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility.

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#9. Joy is thankfulness, and when we are joyful, that is the best expression of thanks we can offer the Lord, Who delivers us from sorrow and sin.

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#10. Modelling was never in my plan. Never.

Christie Brinkley

#11. Orthodoxy is marked by sobriety, not by emotional enthusiasm. It is also marked by a quite "ordinary" persistence in living the humble, consistent life of Christ, not by seeking out extraordinary experiences, especially supernatural ones.

Andrew Stephen Damick

#12. One must love God first, and only then can one love one's closest of kin and neighbors. We must not be idols to one another, for such is not the will of God.

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#13. Where there is prayer, the fallen spirits have no power.

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#14. Moscow has been helping the Northern Alliance because the Taliban was openly supported by Pakistan, .. until last week, Pakistani servicemen had taken part in war operations on the Taliban side.

Sergei Ivanov

#15. And so I, my love, am going to the very center of the earth. I am going to the point that is closest of all to Heaven. If my words are destined to fly all the way to Heaven, then it will happen there. And all my words will be about you.

Evgenij Vodolazkin

#16. Humility is a Divine property and the perfection of the Christian life. It is attained through obedience. He who is not obedient cannot gain humility. There are very few in the world today who have obedience. Our humility is in proportion to our obedience.

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#17. If you lie to yourself you will lie to God too.

Tyler Perry

#18. It might be added, too, that it takes something more than preponderance of numbers to win a battle ...

Burton Egbert Stevenson

#19. The Lord does not require us to wear a [cassock] - He wants us to be good and kind.

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#20. The only man who really needs a tail coat is a man with a hole in his trousers.

John Taylor

#21. You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me.

T. S. Eliot

#22. What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.

Robert Burns

#23. When we talk to our fellow men and they tell us about their troubles, we will listen to them carefully if we have love for them. We will have compassion for their suffering and pain, for we are God's creatures; we are a manifestation of the love of God.

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#24. Love is sacrifice. Love sacrifices itself for its neighbor.

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#25. The ascetic remembrance of death is opposed to akedia, to anxiety, to depression, and becomes a powerful reminder of eternity, its joyful nostalgia.

Paul Evdokimov

#26. We have very little faith in the Lord, very little trust. If we trusted the Lord as much as we trust a friend when we ask him to do something for us, neither we as individuals nor our whole country would suffer so much.

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#27. It is of great significance if there is a person who truly prays in a family. Prayer attracts God's Grace and all the members of the family feel it, even those whose hearts have grown cold. Pray always.

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#28. It is often said that a wrong decision taken at the right time is better than a right decision taken at the wrong time.

Pearl Zhu

#29. Christianity has from its beginning portrayed itself as a gospel of peace, a way of reconciliation (with God, with other creatures), and a new model of human community, offering the 'peace which passes understanding' to a world enmeshed in sin and violence. (1)

David Bentley Hart

#30. I think with you, that nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in wisdom and virtue. Wise and good men are in my opinion, the strength of the state; more so than riches or arms.

Benjamin Franklin

#31. Everything is defeated before love.

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