“If you make provision for the desires of the flesh and bear a grudge against your neighbor on account of something transitory, you worship the creature instead of the Creator.” IfsChristianDesireBearsCreaturesWorshipAccountsCreatorNeighborFleshOrthodoxProvisionGrudgeTransitory Author:Maximus the Confessor
“It may well happen that what is in itself the more certain on account of the weakness of our intelligence, which is dazzled by the clearest objects of nature; as the owl is dazzled by the light of the sun. Hence the fact that some happen to doubt about articles of faith is not due to the uncertain nature of the truths, but to the weakness of human intelligence; yet the slenderest knowledge that may be obtained of the highest things is more desirable than the most certain knowledge obtained of lesser things.” HumansWellsMayFactsLightHappensChristianCertainSunDoubtObjectsHighestWeaknessAccountsDuesOrthodoxArticlesUncertainDesirableOrthodox ChristianOwlHuman IntelligenceCertain Knowledge Book:The Summa Theologica: Complete Edition Source: The Summa Theologica: Complete Edition
“Whoever sees in himself the traces of hatred toward any man on account of any kind of sin is completely foreign to the love of God. For love toward God does not at all tolerate hatred for man.” MenInspirationalKindDoeChristianReligiousSinHatredAccountsGod LoveOrthodoxTolerate Author:Maximus the Confessor
“A passion is a contranatural movement of the soul or an irrational love, or an blindfold hatred toward any material thing, or because of it: for example, for food, or for women, or for riches, or for worldly glory, or any other sensible thing; or for the sake of such things, as in a senseless hatred for someone on account of the things mentioned above.” InspirationalSoulChristianPassionReligiousExampleMovementMaterialsGloryHatredAccountsSakeRichesOrthodoxSensibleIrrationalWorldlyMaterial ThingsBlindfolds Author:Maximus the Confessor
“Our world is guided by two principles and sources: God and the devil. All that is better in the world of men has its source in God, and all that is bad has the devil as its principle and source. In the final account, all good comes from God, and all evil from the devil.” MenWorldInspirationalTwoChristianEvilReligiousPrinciplesSourceDevilAccountsFinalsOrthodoxOur World Author:Justin Popovic
“[Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of the young psychoanalysts as your colleagues, collaborators and partners and not as spies, traitors and wayward children. You can never develop a science that way, only an orthodox church.” ThinkingWayChildrenYoungScienceChurchGroupsDevelopmentTreatsAccountsStrangerPartnersUrgesOrthodoxContemptUsualOutsidersColleaguesSpyTraitorAnalyticsCollaboratorsOrthodox Church Author:Abraham Maslow