Orthoquotes

[Greg the byzantine]

Anybody have any? I am talking about 1-2 lines max, quotes that make you think, that touch your heart, that make you realize something, or that just make you smile.

[Breaking Babylon]

Whenever you wish to make a beginning in some good work, first prepare yourself for the temptations that will come upon you, and do not doubt the truth. - Saint Isaac of Syria

Love sinners, but hate their works; and do not despise them for their faults, lest you be tempted by the same trespasses. - Saint Isaac of Syria

[Knowledge3]

If you have spoken evil of your brother, and you are stricken with remorse, go and kneel down before him and say: 'I have spoken badly of you; let this be my surety that I will not spread this slander any further.' For detraction is death to the soul.

~ Abba Or

[Orthosdoxa]

http://www.orthodox.net/gleanings/sub_all_topics.html

[Tsarina]

"We are pilgrims on this earth and there is nothing permanent for us here." – Fr. Seraphim Rose

"Christianity is really and truly a matter of life and death." –Fr. Seraphim Rose:angel: I like these Quotes.

[Oblio]

I like (IIRC Matrona's) Filli-not-oque !

[The Prokeimenon!]

No others are to sing in church, besides the canonical cantors, who ascend the ambo and sing from a parchment.
- Canon XV of the Council of Laodicea

(I like to throw that one out there when somebody complains that we're not doing something according to the canons :D)

[The Prokeimenon!]

The book of psalms uproots the passions with a certain melodic enjoyment and a delight that instills pure thoughts.
—St. Basil the Great

[Tsarina]

The book of psalms uproots the passions with a certain melodic enjoyment and a delight that instills pure thoughts.
—St. Basil the Great

O, i like this one! :thumbsup:

[Rowan]

A proud monk has no need of a devil. He has become a devil and an enemy to himself. ~ Saint John Climacus

I tell you many have injured their bodies without discernment and have gone away from the monastery having achieved nothing. Our mouths smell bad through fasting, we know the Scriptures by heart, we recite all the Psalms of David but we have not that which God seeks --charity and humility. ~ Anonymous Desert Father (if anyone knows who said this, let me know :D)

[Matrona]

Brethren, if anyone among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back, let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins. --James 5:19-20

[Matrona]

I like (IIRC Matrona's) Filli-not-oque !

;)

[Breaking Babylon]

Walk before God in simplicity and not with knowledge. Simplicity is accompanied by faith; but subtle and intricate deliberations, by conceit; and conceit is accompanied by separation from God. - Saint Isaac of Syria

Humility, even without works, gains forgiveness for many offenses; but without her, works are of no profit to us, and rather prepare for us great evils. - Saint Isaac of Syria

Silence is a mystery of the age to come, but words are instruments of this world. - Saint Isaac of Syria

Conquer evil men by your gentle kindness, and make zealous men wonder at your goodness. Put the lover of legality to shame by your compassion. With the afflicted be afflicted in mind. Love all men, but keep distant from all men. - Saint Isaac of Syria

Glory to God. Saint Isaac of Syria, pray for me, a sinner.

(Can you tell I love this man?)

[Ioan cel Nou]

Here's a Romanian story as quoted by Fr. Gheorghe Calciu-Dumitreasa (vesnica pomenire) which was used as his sister's advice to him. It's always struck me as rather profound (and shows that not everything profitable comes from the mouths of Fathers and saints):

"When God created the world He also created sorrow, suffering and trouble; and He laid them on a big stone and the stone broke; He laid them on a big tree and the tree withered; and finally He laid them on man and man carried them. And so will you, my brother, carry your sufferings."


James

[Orthocat]

"I do not find in orthodox christianity one redeeming feature." - Thomas Jefferson


Politicians show the worst effects of demonic activity. - Orthocat

[Dust and Ashes]

"Religion is needed where there is a wall of separation between God and man. But Christ who is both God and man has broken down the wall between man and God. He has inaugurated a new life, not a new religion." -- Fr. Alexander Schmemann, For the Life of the World

[Komnenos]

"What good is it if the table is overloaded with golden chalices when your brother is dying of hunger? Start by satisfying his hunger and then with what is left you may adorn the altar as well" Saint John Chrysostomos

[Knowledge3]

"If anyone breaks any ecclesiastical tradition, written or unwritten, let him be anathema" Eighth Proceeding of the Seventh Ecumenical Synod; Mansi, Sacrorum Conciliorum Nova et Amplissima Collectio [1960], vol. 3, p. 416). Quoted by Dr. Constantine Cavarnos in Orthodox Tradition and Modernism, p. 37.

[Breaking Babylon]

"Christ is the only exit from this world. All other exits - sexual rapture, political utopia, economic independence - are but blind alleys in which rot the corpses of the many who have tried them...."

+Saint Seraphim Rose of Platina

[Chacci]

If you wish to save your soul and win eternal life, arise from your lethargy, make the sign of the cross, and say: In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen - The first verse of "The Way of the Ascetics"

Therefore, if you wish to save your soul and win eternal life, arise moment by moment from your dullness, bless yourself with the sign of the cross and say: Let me, Lord, make a good beginning, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen - The last verse of "The Way of the Ascetics"

[Greg the byzantine]

thanks guys, keep 'em coming

[Tsarina]

"The evils of our time, are so great that sometimes we lose sight of the greater power of what we have to oppose them with." – Fr. Seraphim Rose.
"Monasteries for the Church, for religion, are the same as Universities, Colleges, and clinics- for science. In our days, the foundation of a traditional Monastery is more useful than the formation of, perhaps, two Universities and a hundred public schools." – Constantine Leontiev

[Knowledge3]

Even if an angel should indeed appear to you, do not receive him but humiliate yourself, saying, 'I am not worthy to see an angel, for I am a sinner.' ~ Desert Father