#orthodox quote

[asmallorthodoxblog]

Saint John Chrysostom: "Not to share our own wealth with the poor is theft from the poor and deprivation of their means of life; we do not possess our own wealth, but theirs."

[howard-philips-wintermute]

This is the sum of the mystery: to be corpses to the world but alive to God.

— Saint Theodore the Studite

[discoveringorthodoxy]

“All things around us are droplets of the love of God. The beauties of nature are the little loves that lead us to the great Love that is Christ. Take delight in all things that surround us. All things teach us and lead us to God. All things around us are droplets of the love of God — both things animate and inanimate, the plants and the animals, the birds and the mountains, the sea and the sunset and the starry sky. They are little loves through which we attain to the great Love that is Christ. Flowers, for example, have their own grace: they teach us with their fragrance and with their magnificence. They speak to us of the love of God. They scatter their fragrance and their beauty on sinners and on the righteous.” 

- St. Porphyrios -

[cnstellaticns]

Our relationship with God is not something merely intellectual; we can know God consciously even before we can speak.

— Sister Magdalen, from Children in the Church Today: An Orthodox Perspective (St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1997)

[orthodoxthoughts]

We ask something of God beseechingly and gently for a certain period of time. If we see that God refuses to give it to us, we stop disturbing Him. The more we want something, the farther away it goes from us. And when we have forgotten it, it will come imperceptibly. God does not forget. He receives our request, and when He thinks that it is time, He answers to it.

St. Porphyrios the New

[miriamgrace25]

Contemporary man, in his loneliness, experiences pathological anxiety, anguish and suffering. He is tormented and, in turn, torments others.

Monk Moses of Mount Athos on 'contemporary loneliness' in "Athonite Flowers: Seven Contemporary Essays on the Spiritual Life"

[artemissashenka]

Πού σου, θάνατε, το κέντρον~ Πού σου, άδη, το νίκος~ Ανέστη Χριστός και σύ καταβέβλησαι. ~Oh Death where is your sting Oh Hades where is your victory? Christ is Risen and you are overthrown.~ Χριστός Ανέστη και Άδης επικράνθη~ Christ is Risen and Hades is mourning

John Chrysostom (Catechetical word, read last during Orthodox Resurrection liturgy) 

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