“Faith is not the supposition that something might be true, but the assurance that someone is there.”
― The Orthodox Way
― The Orthodox Way
“The culture and educational system of the contemporary West are based almost exclusively upon the training of the reasoning brain and, to a lesser degree, of the aesthetic emotions. Most of us have forgotten that we are not only brain and will, senses and feelings; we are also spirit. Modern man has for the most part lost touch with the truest and highest aspect of himself; and the result of this inward alienation can be seen all too plainly in his restlessness, his lack of identity and his loss of hope.”
― The Orthodox Way
― The Orthodox Way
“Jesus condemned no one except hypocrites.”
― The Power of the Name: The Jesus Prayer in Orthodox Spirituality
― The Power of the Name: The Jesus Prayer in Orthodox Spirituality
“We do not have any genuine knowledge of those whom we hate.”
― The Orthodox Way
― The Orthodox Way
“In our spiritual vision we are not only to see each thing in sharp relief, standing out in all the brilliance of its specific being, but we are also to see each thing as transparent: in and through each created thing we are to discern the Creator.”
― The Orthodox Way
― The Orthodox Way
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