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Post by timotheos on Jan 29, 2013 22:08:40 GMT 2
I'd like to create this thread for the purpose of helping to provide spiritual nourishment through the sharing of spiritual quotes from different Orthodox sources  I'll start compiling some for later. |
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Post by admin on Jan 30, 2013 19:25:21 GMT 2
Eagerly waiting for them. ;-)
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Post by OrthodoxBrit on Feb 22, 2013 1:33:41 GMT 2
“Do not ask for love from your neighbor, for if you ask and he does not respond, you will be troubled. Instead show your love for your neighbour and you will be at rest, and so will bring your neighbour to love.”
St Dorotheos of Gaza
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Post by OrthodoxBrit on Feb 23, 2013 3:14:04 GMT 2
“Knowing that God is faithful and mighty, have faith in Him and you will share what is His.”
Abba Euprepius
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Post by OrthodoxBrit on Mar 3, 2013 12:26:15 GMT 2
“Every work which does not have love as its beginning and root, is nothing.” - Saint John Chrysostom
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Post by OrthodoxBrit on Mar 6, 2013 1:47:30 GMT 2
“Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.”
— James 1:2-4 NIV
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Post by OrthodoxBrit on Mar 10, 2013 14:15:52 GMT 2
“Remember God in everything. Let no one grieve because of you. Never let go an opportunity to do something good. Only those things will remain with you till the end.” - Saint Gregorios of Parumala
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Post by OrthodoxBrit on Jun 3, 2013 0:04:42 GMT 2
“Pity the man who falls, but pity twice over the man who causes another to lapse, for he carries the burden of both as well as the weight of pleasure tasted by the other.” - Saint John Climacus
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Post by timotheos on Aug 3, 2013 2:45:27 GMT 2
"Some monks came to Abba Agathon having heard of his great discernment. Wanting to see if he would lose his temper they said to him, ‘Aren’t you the Agathon they say is a fornicator and a proud man?’ ‘Yes, it is very true’, he answered. They resumed, ‘Aren’t you the Agathon who is always talking nonsense?‘ ‘I am’. Again they said, ‘Aren’t you the one they call the heretic?’ But at that he replied, ‘I am not’. So they asked him, ‘tell us, why did you accept everything we cast at you but repudiated this last insult’? He replied, ‘The first accusations I take to myself for that is good for my soul. But heresy is seperation from God, and I have no wish to be seperated from God’. At this they left him, astonished and edified.
- Sayings of the Desert Fathers
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