“We cannot have trust in someone whom we know only superficially. We must know this someone, we must have created a relationship with him. In the end it is necessary to love this someone in order to have confidence in him. Our knowledge of God does not come from books, nor is it the result of reflection. To arrive at knowledge of God, it is necessary to cultivate a relationship with Him. We do not know God as an idea, as the result of a process of thought. It is something else entirely: God is known through an immediate relationship, and it is this which we must seek.”
—Alexander Schmemann
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“Too much indecision is a decision.”
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“Very often, people could be so much more interesting—to themselves, to others—if they were just honest. If they weren’t so afraid of saying things like, ‘How am I going to look if I say this?’”
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If the “meaning” of life or the “solution” to life’s problems could be summed up in one word, I believe that word would be love. This is a conclusion I have reached through my (hereto) thirty-four years of life; but although I often change my opinion on major topics as I get older, I believe that no matter how long I will yet live, on this point my mind will never change. I cannot see any virtue that comes close to this one in the blessings and fruit it produces, and I have never seen any loss that has produced more hurt and pain than the loss of love.
What is the Best Part of Life? The Value of Love and Connecting with Others
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“Instead of asking ourselves what we got done on a given day, perhaps we should be asking if our time was well spent.”
—Srinivas Rao -
Happiness and unhappiness depend on how much Love you have.
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Even though we all hobble along with a limp and are filled with wounds and sins, we like to speak about others. When we visit a hospital, we will observe that all the patients have some type of illness. However, we will not see anyone criticizing another sick person. Have you ever noticed this? No one says to another patient: ‘Why are you lying in bed?’ Whereas, we are all sick spiritually; and yet, we criticize one another. We have a problem with our eye, and we like to occupy ourselves with someone who has lung disease. Unfortunately, we wretched people fail to realize this.
—Elder Ephraim of Philotheou and Arizona
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“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”
―Mary Oliver -
We are restless people who occasionally find rest, dissatisfied people who occasionally find fulfillment, and disquieted people who occasionally find serenity. We do not naturally default into rest, satisfaction, and quiet, but into their opposite.
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The purpose of Christian marriage is for people to reach unselfish love and to cut off their own will, and thence reach God.
—St. John Chrysostom
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