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Slowly, I learned that on the tree of silence hangs the fruit of peace.
“So I would like to suggest that the great spiritual battle of our time is not a struggle between believers and atheists. Rather, it is a struggle between pride and humility. We expect and even demand humility in most areas of life—what really matters is what is objectively true, not what any of us might think is true. Our opinions are not what is important. Yet when it comes to ultimate questions about ourselves and the nature of existence, about the meaning of life, we set aside humility and place ourselves at the center of the universe.”
― Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy: Finding the Way to Christ in a Complicated Religious Landscape
― Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy: Finding the Way to Christ in a Complicated Religious Landscape
“Elsewhere, Schmemann puts it beautifully:
Christ came not to replace "natural" matter with some "supernatural" and sacred matter, but to restore it and to fulfill it as the means of communion with God.”
― Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry
Christ came not to replace "natural" matter with some "supernatural" and sacred matter, but to restore it and to fulfill it as the means of communion with God.”
― Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry
“He who is full of love will incur every loss, that peace may be restored to the Church Who then among you is noble-minded? who compassionate? who full of love? Let him declare, “If on my account sedition and disagreement and schisms have arisen, I will depart, I will go away whithersoever ye desire, and I will do whatever the majority commands; only let the flock of Christ live on terms of peace with the presbyters set over it.” He that acts thus shall procure to himself great glory in the Lord; and every place will welcome him. For “the earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof.” These things they who live a godly life, that is never to be repented of, both have done and always will do.”
― The Complete Ante-Nicene & Nicene and Post-Nicene Church Fathers Collection
― The Complete Ante-Nicene & Nicene and Post-Nicene Church Fathers Collection
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