“You will be able to check envy if you rejoice with the man whom you envy whenever he rejoices, and grieve whenever he grieves.” IfsMenAbleChristianHe ManEnvyChecksGrievingOrthodoxRejoiceOrthodox ChristianRestrainingBeing JoyfulGrievers Author:Maximus the Confessor
“He has as yet no perfect love, whose disposition towards men depends on what they are like, loving one and despising another for this or that, or sometimes loving, sometimes hating one and the same man. Blessed is the man who can love all men equally.” MenSometimesChristianHatePerfectHe ManDependsBlessedOrthodoxDispositionPerfect Love Author:Maximus the Confessor
“The man who has struggled bravely with the passions of the body, has fought ably against unclean spirits, and has expelled from his soul the conceptual images they provoke, should pray for a pure heart to be given him and for a spirit of integrity to be renewed within him (cf. Ps. 51:10). In other words, he should pray that by grace he may be completely emptied of evil thoughts and filled with divine thoughts, so that he may become a spiritual world of God, splendid and vast, wrought from moral, natural and theological forms of contemplation.” MenWorldShouldHeartMaySoulBodyChristianSpiritualFormSpiritPassionEvilGivenNaturalMoralGraceDivineHe ManPrayingIntegrityPureFilledContemplationOrthodoxProvokingSplendidTheologicalCfsPure HeartEvil Thoughts Author:Maximus the Confessor
“It is only necessary to seek one thing: to be with Jesus. The man who remains with Jesus is rich, even if he is poor with regard to material things. Who ever desires the earthly more than the heavenly loses both the earthly and the heavenly. But whoever seeks the heavenly is Lord of the whole world.” IfsMenWorldInspirationalWholeChristianDesireJesusLosesReligiousPoorLordRichOne ThingHe ManMaterialsRegardRemainsWhole WorldHeavenlyOrthodoxMaterial Things Author:Ignatius Bryanchaninov
“My personal attitude toward atheists is the same attitude that I have toward Christians, and would be governed by a very orthodox text: "By their fruits shall ye know them." I wouldn't judge a man by the presuppositions of his life, but only by the fruits of his life. And the fruits - the relevant fruits - are, I'd say, a sense of charity, a sense of proportion, a sense of justice. And whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits, and I have therefore many agnostic friends.” KnowsMenWould BeChristianJusticeAttitudeHe ManJudgingCharityFruitAtheistProportionOrthodoxRelevantAgnostic Author:Reinhold Niebuhr
“I actually performed at an orthodox Jewish wedding, where the men were separated from the women, but they both came together to not enjoy what I was talking about.” MenTogetherEnjoyTalkingHe ManOrthodox Author:Andy Kindler