“Whoever has known the love of God loves the whole world and never murmurs against his fate, for the burden of sorrow for the sake of God gains eternal joy.” WorldInspirationalWholeChristianJoyReligiousKnownFateSorrowEternalGainsSakeBurdenWhole WorldGod LoveOrthodox Author:Silouan the Athonite
“Let there always be a preponderance of mercy with you, even though you don't feel such mercy in yourself, as God has for the world ... A cruel and merciless heart is never purified. A merciful man is the doctor of his own soul, because as it were a by a strong wind from is heart he drives out the darkness of the passions.” MenWorldInspirationalFeelsHeartSoulChristianPassionStrongReligiousDarknessWindDoctorsMercyOrthodoxMercifulStrong Winds Author:Isaac of Nineveh
“Obedience is necessary not only for monks, but for all people. Even the Lord was obedient. The proud and self-regarding do not allow grace to live in them, and therefore they never have spiritual peace, while in the obedient soul the grace of the Holy Spirit enters easily and gives joy and peace. Whoever bears even a little grace in himself joyfully submits himself to all direction. He knows that God directs even the heavens and the netherworld, and himself, and his business, and everything in the world, and therefore he is always at peace.” PeopleKnowsWorldInspirationalGivingLittlesSoulSelfChristianSpiritualJoySpiritHeavenReligiousLordGraceBearsProudHolyObedienceHoly SpiritOrthodoxSubmitMonkObedientSpiritual Peace Author:Silouan the Athonite
“We suffer because we have no humility and we do not love our brother. From love of our brother comes the love of God. People do not learn humility, and because of their pride cannot receive the grace of the Holy Spirit, and therefor the whole world suffers.” PeopleWorldInspirationalWholeChristianSpiritSufferingReligiousGraceHumilityBrotherPrideHolyWhole WorldGod LoveHoly SpiritOrthodox Author:Silouan the Athonite
“The heart and life of a woman is much more vast than that. All women are made in the image of God in that we bring forth life. When we offer our tender and strong feminine hearts to the world and to those we love, we cannot help but mother them.” WorldInspirationalHeartMadeHelpingMotherStrongReligiousOffersFeminineGod ImageThose We Love Book:You Are Captivating: Celebrating a Mother's Heart Source: You Are Captivating: Celebrating a Mother's Heart
“Every artist of importance creates his own world, with its own laws - creates and shapes it in his own shape and image, and no one else's. This is why it is difficult to fit the artist into a world that has already been created, a seven-day, fixed and solidified world: he will inevitably slip out of the set of laws and paragraphs, he will be a heretic.” WorldInspirationalArtLawArtistLiteratureDifficultFitShapesImportanceSevenFixedSlipsParagraphHereticSeven Days Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“The action of Pity leaps quicker than light from the highest place to the lowest to bring healing and joy, whatever the cost to itself. It changes darkness into light and evil into good. But it will not, at the cunning tears of Hell, impose on good the tyranny of evil. Every disease that submits to a cure shall be cured: but we will not call blue yellow to please those who insist on having jaundice, nor make a midden of the world's garden for the sake of some who cannot abide the smell of roses.” WorldInspirationalLightActionJoyEvilReligiousHealingDarknessHellTearsPleaseCostDiseaseHighestGardenBlueRoseSakeSmellTyrannyPityCuresLeapYellowSubmitLowestCunningJaundice Author:C. S. Lewis
“All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world; but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World.” WorldInspirationalRealReligiousHellThis WorldReal WorldAtomsPebblesGreat Divorce Author:C. S. Lewis
“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
“In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.” WorldInspirationalDoneFeltWomenAdventureHelping OthersImpressedVolunteerNursing Author:Dorothy Dix