Marcus Fidel

“For us Christians God is inconceivable, incomprehensible, indescribable, and immaterial, as St. Basil the Great says.”
― Seraphim Rose, Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future

“No, like worldly contempt, worldly honor is a whirlpool, a play of confused forces, an illusory moment in the flux of opinions. It is a sense-deception, as when a swarm of insects at a distance seem to the eye like one body; a sense-deception, as when the noise of the many at a distance seems to the ear like a single voice.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing: Spiritual Preparation for the Office of Confession

“Breathe in its scent and you start to remember things you didn’t know you’d forgotten.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

“In order to love who you are, you cannot hate the experiences that shaped you.”
― Andréa Dykstra