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“it is possible for us to turn our backs on His mercy, and so make ourselves incapable of experiencing it. This is the terrible fire of Judgement Day, not the hateful anger of God, but the reality of infinite love that has been rejected.”
― Father Spyridon Bailey, The Ancient Path

“Even the demons know the truth of facts: that Christ is God Who was incarnate, crucified and resurrected, and that He will come again to judge the living and the dead. But knowing these facts does not lead them to repent of their evil. Our calling as Christians is not to fill our heads with facts in order to impress others or win arguments; it is that we may strengthen our understanding of what God reveals to us in order to know Him more deeply.”
― Spyridon Bailey, Small Steps into the Kingdom

“Many of the Church Fathers make a comparison between physical and spiritual sickness. They ask who would not rush to see a doctor and ask for the appropriate medicines if they were afflicted with some disease. It is with this same urgency that we should desire to find healing of soul. Confession brings us a peaceful conscience for which we should all long.”
― Spyridon Bailey, Small Steps into the Kingdom

“Poor manners can be a sign of a lack of inner attentiveness. When we act without control, even in apparently small things, we are not truly aware of our actions. Our outer life must be ordered, how else can we hope to have spiritual order? We must love God, but this must be joined to attention to all our thoughts and impulses. There must be harmony between what we do and our hearts. This can only be achieved when we are watchful over both. So, when we find ourselves being lazy, or impulsive, we must examine the inner movement of our heart and question ourselves like a ruthless attorney.”
― Spyridon Bailey, Return to Mount Athos

“Christ did not establish something called Christianity, He established the Church.”
― Spyridon Bailey, Small Steps into the Kingdom

“Research into mind control is founded on ideas developed by Carl Yung, who himself was influenced by the occult teachings of his grandfather, the Freemason Carl Gustav.”
― Spyridon Bailey, Orthodoxy and the Kingdom of Satan

“The bread you do not use is the bread of the hungry. The garment hanging in your wardrobe is the garment of the person who is naked. The shoes you do not wear are the shoes of one who is barefoot. The money you keep locked away is the money of the poor. The acts of charity you do not perform are the injustices you commit. - Saint Basil the Great.”
― Father Spyridon Bailey, The Ancient Path

“The promise of a happy life free from discomfort is dangled before us and from every angle voices scream at us to chase it. Psychologists talk about self-realisation and self-esteem. Politics champions materialistic values and realigns our moral system as it calls us to select a side. Movies and television by-pass our rational objections and draw us into making emotional responses to characters and stories that are feeding us this same world view.”
― Spyridon Bailey, The Ancient Path

“If we continually sin and refuse to repent then we are wilfully rejecting God’s call. This is not to say those who repeatedly fall are lost, only those who, each time they fall, have no intention of getting up and trying again. We all fall and fall again. But if we deliberately reject God’s call to repent we have rejected Him.”
― Spyridon Bailey, Small Steps into the Kingdom

“Praising the UN’s health programmes Bill Gates stated: The world today has 6.8 billion people. That’s heading up to about nine billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care and reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps ten or fifteen percent. How revealing that a man applauded in the media for the humanitarian use of part of his vast fortune in making vaccines available sees the purpose of this venture as reducing the number of human beings on earth, not simply saving lives.”
― Spyridon Bailey, Orthodoxy and the Kingdom of Satan

“All of this was recognised by John Paul II who wrote: “By the end of this decade we will live under the first One World Government that has ever existed…a government with absolute authority to decide the basic issues of survival. One World Government is inevitable.”
― Spyridon Bailey, Orthodoxy and the Kingdom of Satan

“Some think the Old Testament is stricter than the New, but they judge wrongly, they are fooling themselves. The old law did not punish the desire to hold onto wealth, it punished theft. But now the rich man is not condemned for taking the property of others: rather he is condemned for not giving his own property. - Saint Gregory the Great.”
― Spyridon Bailey, The Ancient Path

“The vast majority of victims of Roman Catholic paedophiles have been teenage boys, something which contradicts the technical definition of paedophilia which describes it as an “obsessive sexual attraction to children”.  In reality these Roman Catholic clergy are not generally attracted to all children, but specifically to young males.”
― Spyridon Bailey, Orthodoxy and the Kingdom of Satan

“But earlier I mentioned that sometimes we feel daunted at the prospect of admitting our sins before our priest. We are ashamed of our sins and worry that he will think less of us. In fact part of our healing is the growth of our knowledge of ourselves and this requires a level of humility that can grow when we confess our sins. But we must never imagine that our priest ever thinks badly of us for what we are confessing: in fact the opposite is true. A good father confessor will only grow in love for us at the depth and honesty of our confession as he recognises the great faith that prompted us to bare our soul. But we do not do this just to anyone. Saint Basil the Great warns us not to reveal our sickness just to anyone, it does not benefit us to show our physical wounds to someone that is not equipped to help us and neither should we reveal our sins to those who cannot bring us release. But we must not see confession as some mechanistic system that guarantees us forgiveness. God knows our sins in greater depth than our own memories can recall and it is important for us not to hide anything out of shame. But also confession requires that we commit ourselves to struggle against our sins. The opportunity to talk in depth with our priest about our inner state can itself be of great value and provides an opportunity to reflect on how we are living and how we can fight more courageously against sin in the future. Confession cleanses us but it does not protect us from sinning again. We must not only speak the words but feel a genuine sense of remorse over what we have done. The Fathers describe a need for us to weep over our sins, to genuinely purge ourselves of evil.”
― Spyridon Bailey, Small Steps into the Kingdom

“The UN has launched what it calls in its own core document, a “new universal agenda” for humanity. Seventeen goals were established, signed off by almost every nation on earth and backed by the presence of Pope Francis who stated that “The adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is an important sign of hope.” Despite the enormity of the event and the high”
― Spyridon Bailey, Orthodoxy and the Kingdom of Satan

“In baptism we believe that God acts on us, the font is represented as a womb from which a new person emerges (born again). The cleansing of baptism is a reality, in it God washes us clean of our sins, and as Saint Paul says we put on Christ (Gal.3 v27).”
― Spyridon Bailey, Small Steps into the Kingdom

“One of the reasons is to change our view on abortion.”
― Spyridon Bailey, Orthodoxy and the Kingdom of Satan

“We believe in a God Who is not distant, He draws near to us and wants us to experience Him. The whole of creation is filled with His life and presence: Saint Justin Martyr called this logos spermadicos, which means God poured Himself out into every part of the universe. But in our sinful state we turn away from God, we refuse His love and we shut ourselves off from His life. In His infinite love God then went further and gave specific ways for us to discover all that we have turned away from. In the sacraments God strengthens and guides us, He cleanses and unites us to Himself and to one another. The sacraments are a necessary means of healing and restoration of our whole being.”
― Spyridon Bailey, Small Steps into the Kingdom

“Saint John Chrysostom teaches us to think of the Church not as a court of law but as a hospital: not a place of judgement but one of healing. The sacraments are like medicines for the soul and confession is the instrument by which we treat the sickness. It might be better to refer to it as the sacrament of repentance rather than confession since, as we shall see, confession is only one part of what takes place. Let us first consider the authority Christ gave to the Church to administer His forgiveness and then we will reflect on something of the experience and reality of what the sacrament brings.”
― Spyridon Bailey, Small Steps into the Kingdom

“Although our bishops are loved and treated with great respect the Church does not teach that any bishop is infallible. The collegiate nature of the Church is expressed through councils where consensus is reached through the guidance of the Holy Spirit. This leads us to the question of the Pope of Rome and his claims to make infallible judgements about doctrine.”
― Spyridon Bailey, Small Steps into the Kingdom

“Learn to love humility, for it will cover all your sins. All sins are repulsive before God, but the most repulsive of all is pride of the heart. - Saint Anthony the Great.”
― Spyridon Bailey, The Ancient Path

“Let us not, who would be Christians, expect anything else than to be crucified. For to be Christian is to be crucified, in this time and in any time; Christ’s life is the example – and warning – to us all. We must be crucified personally, mystically; for through crucifixion is the only path to resurrection. Suffering is the reality of the human condition and the beginning of true spiritual life. - The Monk Seraphim Rose.”
― Spyridon Bailey, The Ancient Path

“Saint John of Damascus teaches us that repentance can be summed up as returning from the devil to God. We should know that demons work to attract us away from God, that our sins are like serpents nipping at our hearts, pulling us into the devil’s embrace. Repentance is a sword that cuts off the heads of these serpents; we must not let the demons use our pride to persuade us to drop this mighty weapon. We stand in the heat of battle whether we choose to fight or not, and confession is a gift from the One Who has already won the war and now offers us a taste of His victory.”
― Spyridon Bailey, Small Steps into the Kingdom

“Many of us come to Orthodoxy having read good books about great spiritual athletes and it is easy to form romanticised expectations about what the clergy should be like. If we come to church with unrealistic ideas the devil may use them to disappoint us and convince us that things aren’t good enough and that we should look elsewhere. We must remember that the demons will do everything in their power to prevent us from becoming part of Christ’s Church and our own lack of discernment can be a dangerous pitfall. The grace of the priesthood is a real and wonderful blessing but it is given to men of flesh and blood. The devil will delight in telling us how unworthy the priest is: but rest assured, the priest is only too aware of his own unworthiness.”
― Spyridon Bailey, Small Steps into the Kingdom

“For the Orthodox Christian, the assurance is very clear. There is nothing to fear in this phenomenon, UFOs are merely a further manifestation of demonic presence. Our task is not to engage with them, or pursue them, it is to focus on the same spiritual struggles that the Church has always taught us. We are not in danger, UFOs cannot harm us, as long as we confess and repent of our sins, pray, receive Holy Communion, and trust in God’s love. Satan is a liar and we must reject his deception.”
― Spyridon Bailey, The UFO Deception: An Orthodox Christian Perspective

“We are instructed to love one another even as our Creator loves us, to be one even as God is One.”
― Spyridon Bailey, Small Steps into the Kingdom

“how the atheistic communists placed Lenin’s body for permanent veneration like some incorruptible saint:”
― Spyridon Bailey, Orthodoxy and the Kingdom of Satan

“And again, U.S. Senator William Jenner in 1954 said: “Today the path of total dictatorship in the United States can be laid by strictly legal means, unseen and unheard by the Congress, the President, or the people. Outwardly we have a constitutional government. We have operating within our government and political system, another body representing another form of government – bureaucratic elite.”
― Spyridon Bailey, Orthodoxy and the Kingdom of Satan

“It was the ground that God cursed, not Adam. And He cursed the serpent and the fire was prepared for the devil and his legions, not for mankind. - Saint Irenaeus.”
― Spyridon Bailey, The Ancient Path

“On the U.S. dollar bill we find the Latin words “E Pluribus Unem” which means “Order out of chaos”.”
― Spyridon Bailey, Orthodoxy and the Kingdom of Satan