the grimpler cometh

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[thegrimpler]

"A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems. " - CS Lewis

[religiousextremist]

A hermit declared with evident satisfaction that "God will punish all atheists. They will burn in everlasting fire."

Obviously upset, the Staretz St Silouan said: "Tell me, supposing you went to paradise, and there you looked down and saw someone burning in hell fire, would you feel happy?"

"It can't be helped. It would be their own fault," said the hermit.

The Staretz St Silouan answered him in a sorrowful countenance: "Love could not bear that." he said. "We must pray for all."

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[definitely-not-my-real-name]

[religiousextremist]

Three absolutely true, straight paths to heaven.

The first is to never sin. We've lost that path, it doesn't exist anymore. The second is to condemn no one, then the Lord will not condemn us. We have lost this way too.

Only one thing remains - to be merciful, then the Lord will be merciful to us. This is all we have left. We must be gentle, generous, kind, loving, merciful. This is the way He left us. Let's not lose it either.

+ Elder Akakios the Athonite

[wanderlusteurope]

Monastery of Vatopaidi, Mount Athos, Greece

[soulrestinginstpetersburg]

The only reason I dont like being a girl is that I would never be able to step a foot on Mount Athos. But I can still see it from afar.

[fivepoint-12]

[speakthewordonly]

in a kill it with your sword kill it with your sword amen mood today

[thegrimpler]

“We cannot separate healing and forgiveness. We mustn’t have a legalistic understanding that has developed, it must be said, in the west, of what is sin, guilt, and forgiveness. The Church, Orthodoxy, has always understood sin as a spiritual sickness, something of which we need to be healed… the healing that God gives to us is transformative, it brings a purification, an inward purification, that goes hand in hand with forgiveness.”

- Father Spyridon Bailey

[thegrimpler]

[sedesapostolica]

[doloresdelalucha]

[orthodoxadventure]

[religiousextremist]

"As a historical matter, the churches that have excluded Lent have not replaced it with a permanent atmosphere of joy... In Reformed churches, the suppression of Lent has been simultaneous with the suppression of Carnival and other seasons of playful joy. Suppression of Lent did not produce perpetual Easter; it produced a perpetual Lent."

Written by Reformed author Peter J. Leithart

[religiousextremist]

At least once in our life we must light a candle for those whom we insulted, whom we deceived, whom we stole something from, whom we owed, and whom we did not pay our debt.

+ St. Seraphim of Vyritsa

[furordinaricvs]

Monks of Mt Athos having fun in the snow.

[thatsprolifeactually]

“Clump of cells”, “parasite”, “tissue”, “tumor”, “products of conception”, etc.