“As a handful of sand thrown into the ocean, so are the sins of all flesh as compared with the mind of God.” Quote by Isaac of Nineveh
“Just as a strongly flowing fountain is not blocked up by a handful of earth, so the compassion of the Creator is not overcome by the wickedness of his creatures.” EarthChristianCompassionCreaturesOvercomingCreatorOrthodoxFountainWickednessHandfulOrthodox ChristianBlocked Author:Isaac of Nineveh
“Someone who bears a grudge while he prays is like a person who sows in the sea and expects to reap a harvest.” PersonsChristianSeaBearsPrayingOrthodoxHarvestReapOrthodox ChristianGrudgeSowingIll Feelings Author:Isaac of Nineveh
“Fire and water do not mix, neither can you mix judgment of others with the desire to repent. If a man commits a sin before you at the very moment of his death, pass no judgment, because the judgment of God is hidden from men. It has happened that men have sinned greatly in the open but have done greater deeds in secret, so that those who would disparage them have been fooled, with smoke instead of sunlight in their eyes.” IfsMenHas BeensDoneMomentsEyeChristianDesireWaterSinSecretFireGreaterHappenedJudgmentDeedsCommitSmokeSinnerOrthodoxSunlightRepentFooledJudgment Of OthersDisparagingWater And Fire Author:John Climacus
“Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.” PeopleLittlesGrewGrew UpExpectationsShockedNaiveViolationDoing Right Author:Dave Eggers
“For virtue is a light and buoyant thing, and all who live in her way fly like clouds as Isaiah says, and as doves with their young ones; but sin is a heavy affair, as another of the prophets says, sitting upon a talent of lead.” WayLightChristianYoungSinVirtueTalentSittingAffairCloudsHeavyProphetOrthodoxOrthodox ChristianDoveYoung Ones Author:Gregory of Nyssa
“As the Holy Trinity, our God is One Being, although Three Persons, so, likewise, we ourselves must be one. As our God is indivisible, we also must be indivisible, as though we were one man, one mind, one will, one heart, one goodness, without the smallest admixture of malice - in a word, one pure love, as God is Love. That they may be one, even as We are One (John 17:22).” MenMindHeartMayPersonsChristianThreeHolyPureGoodnessOrthodoxOne ManSmallestMaliceOrthodox ChristianTrinityPure LoveGod Is LoveIndivisibleHoly Trinity Author:John of Kronstadt
“Whenever we cover our brother's sin, God will cover ours; whenever we tell people about our brother's guilt, God will do the same about ours.” PeopleChristianSinBrotherGuiltGods WillOrthodox Author:Poemen
“God always was, and always is, and always will be. Or rather, God always Is. For Was and Will be are fragments of our time, and of changeable nature, but He is Eternal Being. And this is the Name that He gives to Himself when giving the Oracle to Moses in the Mount. For in Himself He sums up and contains all Being, having neither beginning in the past nor end in the future; like some great Sea of Being, limitless and unbounded, transcending all conception of time and nature, only adumbrated [intimated] by the mind, and that very dimly and scantily.” GivingMindEndsChristianPastNamesSeaEternalOur TimeOrthodoxConceptionFragmentsLimitlessMosesOrthodox ChristianTranscendingOracles Author:Gregory of Nazianzus
“Even if we have thousands of acts of great virtue to our credit, our confidence in being heard must be based on God's mercy and His love for men. Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.” IfsMenChristianVirtueHeardMercyCreditSavedOrthodoxHis LoveSummitOrthodox Christian Author:Saint John Chrysostom
“The man who follows Christ in solitary mourning is greater than he who praises Christ amid the congregation of men.” MenChristianChristGreaterHe ManPraiseMourningOrthodoxSolitaryOrthodox ChristianCongregation Author:Isaac of Nineveh