SO GOOD QUOTES

Category: KNOWLEDGE

  • When you are confused and you don’t know the voice of God, you have to ask yourself, “When was the last time I read my Bible.” “Father, so the Bible is going to solve my problem, God is going to tell me the answer?” One hundred percent. One hundred percent. When I learn to hear His voice, He will show me the answer.

    —Fr. Mina Dimitri

  • “The grass is brown on both sides.”

    —Fr. Damian Ference

  • “We spare neither labors nor means in order to teach our children secular sciences, so that they can serve well the earthly authorities. Only the knowledge of the holy Faith, the service of the Heavenly King are a matter of indifference to us. We allow them to attend spectacles but we care little whether they go to Church and stand within it reverently. We demand an account from them of what they learned in their secular institutes—why do we not demand an account from them of what they heard in the Lord’s house?”

    —St. John Chrysostom

  • “A small fire often destroys a whole forest; so too a small flaw spoils all our labour.”

    —St. John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent

  • “Not only do my choices and their consequences effect those around me immediately, but my choices also effect those far away and those not yet born.”

    —Fr. Michael Gillis

    “Your lives in your homes are a responsibility, and have a deep effect in the generations coming after you.”

    —H.H. Pope Shenouda III

    “The life of each one of us does not end at death on this earth and birth into heaven. We place a seal on everyone we meet. This responsibility continues after death, and the living are related to the dead for whom they pray. In the dead we no longer belong completely to the world; in us the dead still belong to history. Prayer for the dead is vital; it expresses the totality of our common life.”

    —Metropolitan Anthony Bloom

    Every human being is an incalculable force, bearing within him something of the future. To the end of time, our daily words and actions will bear fruit, either good or bad; nothing that we have once given of ourselves will perish, but our words and works, handed on from one to another, will continue to do good or harm to remote generations. This is why life is a sacred thing, and we ought not to pass through it thoughtlessly, but to appreciate its value and use it so that, when we are gone, the sum total of good in the world may be greater.

    —Servant of God Elisabeth Leseur

  • “We can find something edifying in everybody’s life. Even the worst thief has something good in him.”

    —Elder Thaddeus of Serbia

  • “Openly appearing to those who look for Him with all their heart, while hiding from those who run from Him with all their heart, God governs human knowledge of His presence.  He gives signs that are visible to those who search for Him, and yet invisible to those who are indifferent to Him. To those who wish to see, God gives sufficient light; to those who do not wish to see, He gives sufficient darkness.”

    —Blaise Pascal

  • “The more we look at ourselves, the less we see.”

    —Fr. Michael Gillis
    Praying In The Rain, What is Worth Living For? A Response

  • Curiosity consists of trying to know everything without order, without aim, without distinguishing whether it is needful or not. It is only necessary that one should preserve a measure and order in exercising the senses, and direct them only to what is needful and to awareness of what is needful—then there will be no food for curiosity.

    —St. Theophan the Recluse, The Path to Salvation: A Manual of Spiritual Transformation

  • “He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.”

    —Michel de Montaigne