Orthodoxy of the Heart
“The true faith in Christ is in the heart, and it is fruitful, humble, patient, loving, merciful, compassionate, hungering and thirsting for righteousness; it withdraws from worldly lusts and clings to God alone, strives and seeks always for what is heavenly and eternal, struggles against every sin, and constantly seeks and begs help from God for this.”
– St. Tikhon of Zadonsk
“…but the person who is greatly distressed, who walks bent over, who is ailing and going blind, and the person who hungers – these will give glory and righteousness to You, O Lord.”
– Baruch 2:18
“Thus says the Lord…In those days and at that time I will cause to grow up to David. A Branch of righteousness: He shall execute judgment and righteousness in the earth. In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell safely. And this is the name by which she will be called:
THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.”
– Jeremiah 33:15-16
“The three one God when contemplated together; each God because consubstantial; one God because of the monarchia.”
– Saint Gregory the Theologian
“Who gives you the day will give you also the things necessary for the day.”
– Saint Gregory of Nyssa
“Run, I beseech you, with him who said: Let us hasten until we attain to the unity of faith and the knowledge of God, unto a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the
fullness of Christ…”
– Saint John Climacus
(The Ladder of Divine Ascent, A Brief Exhortation, p 248)
“None is worthy among those bound with carnal desires and pleasures to approach or draw nigh or to minister to Thee, O King of glory, for to serve Thee is a great and fearful thing even unto the heavenly Powers.”
– Saint Basil the Great
(Divine Liturgy of Saint Basil)
“This life has been given to you for repentance;
do not waste it in vain pursuits.”
– Saint Isaac the Syrian
“Everyone must recognize that a man who attempts to dishonor an image which has been set up for the glory and remembrance of Christ, of His holy Mother, or one of His saints, is an enemy of Christ, of His holy Mother, and the saints .”
– Saint John of Damascene
(On Holy Images Part III)
“He gave us divinity, we gave Him humanity.”
– Saint Ephrem the Syrian
(Hymn on Faith v17)
“We should devote all our efforts for the benefit of our souls. We should strengthen our bodies only so that they might aid us in strengthening our souls…”
– Saint Seraphim of Sarov
(The Joy of the Holy)
“Come, wretched soul, with your flesh, confess to the Creator of all. In the future refrain from you former brutishness, and offer to God tears of repentance.”
– Saint Andrew of Crete
(The Great Canon)
“But let our leader in the discourse be my Christ (if thus I dare name Him) who inspires all hierarchical revelation…The aim of Hierarchy is the greatest possible assimilation to and union with God, and by taking Him as leader in all holy wisdom, to become like Him, so far as is permitted, by contemplating intently His most Divine Beauty.”
– Saint Dionysius
(The Celestial Hierarchy)
Orthodoxy of the Heart
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