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Ents were created at the request of Yavanna to guard the trees, and thus were called "Shepherds of the Trees".
As with Hobbit, Ent is a term that in modern times is almost exclusively connected with J.R.R. Tolkien, and the usage of the term seldom evokes in people its earlier meanings.
Ents were a very old race that appeared in Middle-earth when the Elves did. They were created by Eru Ilúvatar at the behest of Yavanna, after she learned that Aulë's children, the Dwarves, were wont to fell trees. Ents were envisioned as Shepherds of the Trees and their duty was to protect the forests from Orcs, Dwarves and other perils. The Elves had tales of teaching the trees to talk, and they also taught the Ents to talk. Although the Ents were sentient beings at the time, they did not know how to speak until the Elves taught them. Treebeard said the Elves "curing the Ents of their dumbness" was a great gift that could not be forgotten.
Ents were tree-like creatures, having become like the trees that they shepherded. They varied in traits, from everything to height and size, colouring, and the number of fingers and toes. An individual Ent more or less resembled the specific species of tree that they typically guarded. For example, Quickbeam guarded rowan trees and thus looked very much like a rowan. In the Third Age of Middle-earth, the Forest of Fangorn was apparently the only place Ents still inhabited, although the Ent-like Huorns may still have survived elsewhere, as in the Old Forest.
Rise and Decline
Almost nothing is known of the early history of the Ents — they apparently lived in and protected the large forests of Middle-earth in previous ages. At the end of the First Age they were sumoned by Beren and Lúthien to attack a band of dwarves. Treebeard told of a time when nearly all of Eriador was one huge forest and part of his domain, but these immense forests were cut by the Númenóreans of the Second Age, or destroyed in the calamitous War of the Elves and Sauron of the 17th century of the Second Age. Treebeard's statement is also supported by remarks Elrond Half-elven made at the Council of Elrond. Elrond said that "Time was once when a squirrel could carry a nut from tree to tree from Rivendell to the Great Sea...", further indicating that all of Eriador was once a single vast primeval forest, of which Fangorn Forest was just "the Eastern End of it" according to Treebeard.
There used to be Entwives (literally "Ent-women"), but they started to move farther away from the Ents because they liked to plant and control things, so they moved away to the region that would later become the Brown Lands across the Great River Anduin. This area was destroyed by Sauron, and the Entwives disappeared. The Ents looked for them, but have never found them. It is sung by the Ents that one day they will find each other. In The Fellowship of the Ring, Sam Gamgee says his cousin Hal saw treelike giant in the north of the Shire. When Pippin and Merry tell Treebeard about the Shire, Treebread says the entwives would like that land.
Treebeard boasted to Merry and Pippin about the strength of the Ents. He said that they were much more powerful than Trolls, which Morgoth supposedly made as imitations of the Ents. He compares this with how Orcs were Morgoth's imitation of Elves.
The March of the Ents
- "The Ents are going to war!"
- ― Treebeard
During the War of the Ring the Ents—usually a very patient, deliberate people—did become angry at Saruman, whose armies were cutting down large numbers of their trees. They convened an Entmoot, a meeting of the Ents of Fangorn Forest at Derndingle.
After lengthy deliberation (though from the perspective of the Ents, this was very quick action), they marched on Saruman's fortress at Isengard: the last march of the Ents. They were led by Treebeard, the oldest Ent, and accompanied by the Hobbits Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took. They destroyed Isengard in an all-out assault and trapped Saruman in the tower of Orthanc. Tolkien later noted that the destruction of Isengard by the Ents was based off of personal disappointment in MacBeth, when "Birnham Wood is come to castle Dunsinane". Tolkien was less than thrilled that it amounted to men walking on stage with leaves in their hats; he decided that when he did the scene for himself, he would do it correctly.
Etymology and Names
Ent is supposed to represent the language of the Vales of Anduin.[1]
The Sindarin name for Ents, as a race, is Onodrim, and as individuals Onod (pl. Enyd).[1]
The word Ent is derived from Old English ent, meaning "giant" (from eoten, Norse jotun), although the Ents were unrelated to the giants or the jotuns.[1][2]
Portrayal in Adaptions
2001-3: The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy:
- Ents in The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy were portrayed as, perhaps, more tree-ish than in the books (the books describe them as having smooth skin; the movie has them with skin like thick and rough bark. In the movie adaption, the Ents at the Entmoot decide that this is "not our war", despite strong protest from Merry. The scene is also shorter, cutting out Bregalad completely; Treebeard is the only Ent who is named and speaks on screen..
Treebeard is about to take them north to the border, when Pippin insists that they go South instead, because "the closer we are to danger, the farther we are from harm". This "does not make sense" to Treebeard, but he does as they ask, and sees the ruin and destruction that Saruman has wrought on southern Fangorn. Treebeard then calls the Ents to battle with his booming Ent-call, and they appear out of the forest as if they had been standing there waiting for it. That they do not know the borders of their own forest is another possible logical gap. But others have accepted Jackson's technique as valid, because of the seemingly minor actions of Merry and Pippin throughout The Two Towers.
External links
|Treebeard (Fangorn) · Leaflock (Finglas) · Skinbark (Fladrif) · Quickbeam (Bregalad) · Beechbone · Fimbrethil (Wandlimb)
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 J.R.R. Tolkien, "Nomenclature of The Lord of the Rings" in Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull (eds), The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, pp. 756-7
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún, "Appendix C: Old English Poem of Attila", p. 376 (note 17)

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...Serbian Abbess...Do you know anything about how many people the Anglicans hanged for just being poor during their reformation? Do you know anything about the plantations of Ulster and Munster? The fire bombing of Dresden? The massacres that followed the Indian mutitany? Do you know how utterly riddled with satanic Freemasonary it is?
Anglicanism is not a joke however much as it does invoke our laughter.
A very ascetic and holy Serbian Abbess told me that Anglicianism has a very strong demonic spirit, stronger and more demonic actually than the papist one. She told me and the others that we should both fear and hate it. That is the geniune Christian attitude towards it- not laughter.
Do you know anything about how many people the Anglicans hanged for just being poor during their reformation? Do you know anything about the plantations of Ulster and Munster? The fire bombing of Dresden? The massacres that followed the Indian mutitany?
The English have brutally occupied my fatherland. We have suffered over 800 years of bloody occupation
lack of patriotism is a sin
. He hates more Anglicanism more than I have the strength too but that is probably a product of his love for England which I dont have.To really love the English is to hate Anglicanism.
He approves of my hatred for the "Church of Ireland" because they lobby the free state to allow doctors (funny how most abortion doctors are jewish) to murder Irish childern while they are still in their mothers womb. Dont the Anglicans in the USA support not only abortion but homosexuality?
However it wasnt me who said that but a very Spiritual person. The demonic spirit of Anglicanism should be hated and feared.
I dont hate Anglicans. I hate Anglicanism.
Though of course unrepentent Anglicans go to hell when they die which is something for you to think about.
What I wrote was addressed to Path of Solitude who is a Christian (though a heretical one), not to you who are an "Anglican" i.e. an English individual.
I have peace.The peace of Jesus Christ who came to bring to earth the sword of division.I know that unrepentent Anglicians go to hell until the last Judgement because the Church teaches me so. I am sad that you cant see why we hate and fear the demonic spirit of Anglicanism. I hope that one day you will become a True Orthodox Christian.Theophan.
Silly me I thought the church stated that no one knows who goes to Hell except for God?
Judgment is only for God not God and GOCTheophan so you don't have the slightest clue what will happen to Ebor after death. I'm sure Ebor has a better chance then me because Ebor holds to the greatest commandment of the Lord which is Love thy neighbor.
you do not know what is in Ebor's heart to damn him to hell.
Are you seriously saying that Baptism is not necessary to rise through the toll houses?
What Fathers say this?The Church and the Bible are quite clear on what type of people will be damned.Theophan.
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From the writings of Abba Dorotheos:A certain elder heard that one brother had fallen into lust, said, "Oh! He did evil." At once appeared before him an angel holding the soul of the brother who sinned, and said "The one you have judged has died! Where do you direct therefore that I take him, to paradise or to hell?" In other words, it was as if the angel said to him "Since you are the judge of the just and the sinners, tell me, what do you direct for this soul? Do you give it grace or condemnation?"At these words the holy elder trembled. He fell immediately with his face at the feet of the angel and wished forgiveness. And (the angel) replied to him: "There, God has shown you how serious it is to judge. Don't do it again." - Abba Dorotheos, "Works of Asceticism", "Etoimasia", Monastery of St. John the Forerunner Karea, Athens 1991.
He probably stands a better chance of ultimate Salvation than members of OCA who have none at all but still lets face it...what are the chances of his repentence? What are the chances of his being able to embrace the Truth when faced with it and not cling to the demons of Anglicanism unto the Ages? He has had access to the Truth and he has rejected it.Theophan.
Ultimate is not the same as only. And it is clear since there are writings and teachings in other Churches that more then the Bible is used. But we've gone over this already. Please forgive me, but I'm not sure why you would keep on the subject of Sola Scriptura when it doesn't apply to Anglicans (that being the subject of the thread.) I'm not going to change and say that it does.
As I'm sure you know, Orthodox are not thrilled with the term "Vicar of Christ" as Rome uses it. How do Anglicans mean by the use the "V word"?
A "Vicar" in the Church of England was originally a priest supplied to a parish Church by a monastery. This priest acted on behalf of (i.e. "Vicariously for") the monastery. In modern England, the word "vicar" was retained and is mostly used in urban areas, while "rector" is used in rural areas.
In modern England, the word "vicar" was retained and is mostly used in urban areas, while "rector" is used in rural areas.
who wrote the last article?
Also, how is Anglo-Catholic different from High Church Anglican? (I have an idea, but I trust your opinion about this more than mine!)
Cleveland- if we take your above quote literally then we could never acknowledge that an individual is in sin. Scripture commands us to acknowledge that a brother is in sin, firstly to correct him or to take the situation to authorities, and secondly so that we know to stay away from him.
My take of the quote is that the abba did more than acknowledge that one is in sin and rather crossed the line into trying to function as judge over a soul. Thats a crucial distinction.
Who cares?
Ebor,Greetings once again! Wow, a lot has happened since my last posting!
Nevertheless, I do think Prodromas has a point in that the topic of this thread is to understand more about what Anglicans believe, which is what I want to know. You know, discussions sometimes go a bit astray. Hope youare not offended; that wasn't my intent. I'll try to stick to the topic (but make no guarantees ).
I know the Church of England uses the term "Vicar" to describe priests--or it is bishops? But when I was attending the Episcopal Church (now an Anglican Church), I don't think they used that title. As I'm sure you know, Orthodox are not thrilled with the term "Vicar of Christ" as Rome uses it. How do Anglicans mean by the use the "V word"?Also, how is Anglo-Catholic different from High Church Anglican? (I have an idea, but I trust your opinion about this more than mine!)
4B) Don't Low-Church Anglicans use the Book of Common Prayer as well?
1) What does Anglican in America mean? Until the recent split, I thought all American Anglicans were Episcopalians.
I must admit, there is something attractive about Anglicanism. There is a great appreciation for tradition, and the Church does not require people to accept those Catholic and Orthodox doctrines with which I personally struggle. Of course, what matters is what is actually true, not what is most appealing.
And did those feet in ancient timeWalk upon England's mountains greenAnd was the holy lamb of GodOn England's pleasant pastures seenAnd did the countenance divineShine forth upon our clouded hillsAnd was Jerusalem builded hereAmong those dark Satanic millsBring me my bow of burning goldBring me my arrows of desireBring me my spears o'clouds unfoldBring me my chariot of fireI will not cease from mental fightNor shall my sword sleep in my hand'Til we have built JerusalemIn England's green and pleasant land'Til we have built JerusalemIn England's green and pleasant land
Greetings, Ebor. A couple of more questions.Thanks for your willingness to answer.
4) What is the difference between High-Church Anglicans and Low-Church Anglicans?
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There remains great beauty in Anglicanism. I attended choral evensong on Christmas Day at Salisbury Cathedral in England last week. They had feathered angels suspended in the air along the nave. I could have sworn they were singing too.
1b) Until the recent split, I thought all American Anglicans were Episcopalians.
2) What is your take on that split?
3a) Why did the head of the Anglican Church in England criticize Americarecently?
In a related matter, who is the head of the Anglican Church?The Archbishop of Canterbury? I thought the queen (of England) was the head of thechurch, but not for American Anglicans. Is the queen the head of the church in the British Empire (Canada, Australia, etc.)?
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In past sessions, the House of Representatives has held a joint session
with the Senate to hear the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court present
the State of the Judiciary.
Melanie Meier's Adventures in the StatehouseKansas House of Representatives Volume 2013, Issue 4: February 10, 2013 In This Issue - State of the Judiciary- Executive Reorganization Order No. 42- Keep in Touch State of the Judiciary In past sessions, the House of Representatives has held a joint sessionwith the Senate to hear the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court presentthe State of the Judiciary. This year the new Speaker of the Housedenied the Chief Justice's request so we received the report in writingand it was dated January 31, 2013. I have summarized some of thereport: Chief Justice Nuss gave an update on "Project Pegasus," a two partproject designed to study the Kansas Judicial system and makerecommendations on efficiency. The first part was a weighted caseloadstudy to measure the actual workloads of all Kansas district courts andservices. The Judges and employees kept track of their tasks and howlong it took to perform them. The second part was a Blue RibbonCommission, made up of 24 Kansans of various professions, that reviewed the caseload study and Judicial operations across the state in order to make the recommendations. The Project was completed last year. The Chief Justice stated that the study showed Kansas has the correctnumber of Judges to handle the caseload, but they are not in the mostefficient locations. There is a Kansas statute that requires at leastone judge to live and work in each county, so some Judges are underutilized in counties with lower populations. The Judicial branchrequested legislation last year to allow them to manage the judges andlocate them where they are best utilized, but the legislation failed.This year they are asking for the legislature to create and fund the 22new judges and staff that are needed to complete the caseloads in themost populated counties, since they cannot move them around. The study also showed the possibility of better efficiency by usingelectronic filing of documents, so pilot projects were started inDouglas, Leavenworth, and Sedgwick Counties. The Judicial Branch's goal this year is to centralize this "e-court" system and to use it statewide in order to allow court personnel to work on cases anywhere in the state enabling Kansas to keep all 105 county court clerk offices open and utilized. The pilot program was paid for using a Justice Assistance Grant at no cost to Kansas. In 2012, the Judicial branch had asked the legislature for the ability to raise the $2 million necessary to pay for a statewide system by assessing fees on the users of the system. That legislation also failed. The Chief Justice described other cost saving measures the JudicialBranch has implemented:- The Court of Appeals has started using video conferencing instead ofpersonal appearances for certain activities in order to save travelcosts- The Court of Appeals is developing a program for mediation of appealsin order to save time and money, plus reduce of the number of cases that go to court- The Supreme Court has partnered with KU Law to allow students toperform legal research. This allows research at no cost to Kansas andgives the students experience. He closed by stating that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has ranked the Kansas courts 5th among the states for their liability system that makes Kansas more business friendly. He warned that an inadequately funded court system will cause Kansas to drop in its national rankings and affect our competiveness in attracting new business. Executive Reorganization Order (ERO) No. 42 We heard and discussed the Governor's ERO 42, in the Corrections &Juvenile Justice Committee this week. It is the order to move theJuvenile Justice Authority under the Department of Corrections. The proponents were the Secretary of Corrections and the ActingCommissioner of the Juvenile Justice Authority (JJA). They stated thatthe motivation for the move is public safety and not efficiency. Therewas a Legislative Post Audit of the JJA last year that produced somealarming findings about the security posture of the facility in Topeka.The Department of Corrections stepped in to help remedy the situation by providing the current Acting Commissioner and supporting her withequipment and measures such as search dogs. They testified that theyalready share some training and the Information Technology Department and could possibly save money through sharing health care and food programs. The Secretary of Corrections stated that he intends on keeping the budgets separate and that he cannot transfer personnel between the two because the training to work with juveniles is so specialized. They also stated that 9 other states have their JJA work under the Department of Corrections, and the Juveniles would just be another specialized population that the Secretary would be responsible for. The opponents were a Senator that was in the legislature when the JJAwas formed, a Representative that has worked on the joint commissions for corrections and juvenile justice and the KS Association of Counties. The KS Community Corrections Association stated that they were aproponent, but started their testimony by saying that they were under no illusion that the ERO would be defeated and feared that the JJA programs are more likely to succumb to future budget reductions if they are under the Department of Corrections. The opponents testified that the legislature spent several years studying evidence based on research by experts in working with juveniles when they formed the JJA and that this move does nothing to fix the public safety issues addressed by the audit. They pointed out that both the proponents testified that they had already remedied the issues identified in the Legislative Post Audit report, which were attributed to hiring underqualified and unqualified individuals to lead the JJA, large funding cuts, and inequities in salaries. The opponents testified that the juvenile and adult systems are two very different cultures that juveniles are much more than just a specialized population. The opponents stated that this ERO was just a "knee jerk reaction" to bad audit findings, with no input by the stakeholders and the only proponents work directly for the Governor. Keep in Touch I am privileged and honored to be your voice in the Kansas Capitol. Youcan track my activities on my website www.meier4kansas.com, my Facebook page www.facebook.com/Meier4Kansas, and Twitterwww.twitter.com/melaniemeier. If I can ever be of assistance to you, please feel free to contact me.My Topeka office address is Kansas State Capitol, Topeka, KS 66612. You can also reach me at the legislative hotline, 1-800-432-3924 or e-mail me at email@example.com. If you need to directly contact a particular agency in state government,you can find useful telephone numbers online athttp://da.state.ks.us/phonebook.


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"I guard you in advance against beasts in the form of men, whom you must not only not receive, but if it is possible not even meet, but only pray for them, if perchance they may repent…" —St. Ignatius of Antioch
"I guard you in advance against beasts in the form of men, whom you must not only not receive, but if it is possible not even meet, but only pray for them, if perchance they may repent…" —St. Ignatius of Antioch
"Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible." —St. Augustine
"Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible." —St. Augustine
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Favorite Quotations: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." —Edmund Burke
"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." —Bill Watterson
"The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history." — Friedrich Hegel
"You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know." —William Wilberforce
"He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear." —Claudius Claudianus
"Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect - Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:-- We murder to dissect." —William Wordsworth
"Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time." —Terry Pratchett
"Political correctness is tyranny with manners." —Charlton Heston
"A philosophical vogue is as irresistible as a gastronomic one: an idea is no better refuted than a sauce." —E. M. Cioran
"You were born an original. Don't die a copy." —John Mason
"One today is worth two tomorrows." —Benjamin Franklin
"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser." —John W. Gardner
"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending." —Maria Robinson
"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." —Mark Twain
"The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food." —Russian Proverb
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich." —Napoleon Bonaparte
"Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed." —Friedrich Nietzsche
"Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time. If you're right and you know it, speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth." —Gandhi
"Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil." —Plato
"Democracy is the dictatorship of the ignorant masses." —Plato
"The wise speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something." —Plato
"A liberal is someone who only wants to be free from the consequences of freedom." —Mike Adams
"Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light." —Bruce Lee
"Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them." —Bruce Lee
"Simplicity is the key to brilliance." —Bruce Lee
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." —Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." —Alexander Pope
"Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain." —Alexander Pope
"How long is love blind? Love has eyes and sees. And if love can see, and seeing, you love anyway, that's love." —Gertrude Berg (The Goldbergs, s1e10, 1955)
"You never receive love until you learn how to accept it." —Mr. Roarke (Fantasy Island, s4e7)
"You never deny love until you learn how to reject it." —Taylor Howell
"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery." —Charles Caleb Colton
"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit." —Nelson Henderson
"Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions." —G.K. Chesterton
"Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed." —William Blake
"Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots." —Frank A. Clark
"The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names." —K'ung Fu-Tzu (Confucius)
"If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things." —K'ung Fu-Tzu (Confucius)
"They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom." —K'ung Fu-Tzu (Confucius)
"The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort." ——K'ung Fu-Tzu (Confucius)
"And she [Athens] has brought it about that the name "Hellenes" suggests no longer a race but an intelligence, and that the title "Hellenes" is applied rather to those who share our culture then to those who share a common blood." —Isocrates
"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare; and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere." —Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I teach them all the good I can, and recommend them to others from whom I think they will get some moral benefit. And the treasures that the wise men of old have left us in their writings I open and explore with my friends. If we come on any good thing, we extract it, and we set much store on being useful to one another." —Socrates
"What a lot of things there are a man can do without." —Socrates
"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts." —Aristotle
"We walk by the light we are given." —Frank Shaeffer
"Control thy passions lest they take vengeance on thee." —Epictetus
"Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake." —William James
"It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish." —Aeschylus
"I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error." —Descartes
"It is strictly and philosophically true in nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything really existing, anything that is truly an agent or the cause of any event; but they signify merely men's ignorance of the real and immediate cause." —Samuel Clark
"While the admission of a design for the universe ultimately raises the question of a Designer (a subject outside of science), the scientific method does not allow us to exclude data which lead to the conclusion that the universe, life and man are based on design. To be forced to believe only one conclusion--that everything in the universe happened by chance would violate the very objectivity of science itself."—Werner Von Braun, Ph.D., the father of the NASA space Program
"Relativity applies to physics, not ethics." —Albert Einstein
"When people stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing—they believe in anything." —G.K. Chesterton
"If everyone has his own truth, then where is falsehood?" —Archbishop Stephan (Kalaidjishvili)
"He is "the same yesterday and today and forever" (Hebrews 13:8). Orthodox Christians are committed to the truth claim of the Christian Faith not as ideology but as an expression of holiness." —Rev. Dr. George C. Papademetriou
"He who learns must suffer And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget Falls drop by drop upon the heart, And in our own despite, against our will, Comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God." —Aeschylus
"Monarchy can easily be debunked, but watch the faces, mark well the debunkers. These are the men whose taproot in Eden has been cut: whom no rumour of the polyphony, the dance, can reach - men to whom pebbles laid in a row are more beautiful than an arch. … Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes or film stars instead: … For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison." —C. S. Lewis
"Sometimes a man's happiness is so deep inside him that he may forget it's there and start looking elsewhere hunting a fantasy, an illusion." —Mr. Roarke (Fantasy Island, s2e14)
"The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man." —unknown
"People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos is because things are being loved and people are being used." —unknown
"God cannot give us happiness and peace apart from Himself because it is not there. There is no such thing." —C.S. Lewis
"If you die before you die, than when you die, you will not die." —written on a cell wall, St. Paul's Monastery, Mt. Athos
"War in the name of religion is war against religion." —His all Holyness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
"Believe me, if God revealed to us the disasters to which we were exposed and from which He protected us, our whole lives would not suffice to offer Him thanks." —H.H. Pope Shenouda
"In heaven, God will not ask us why we have sinned; He will ask us why we did not repent." —H.H. Pope Shenouda III
"Years are not needed for true repentance, and not days, but only an instant." —St. Ambrose of Optina
"When a man abandons his sins and returns to God, his repentance regenerates him and renews him entirely." —St. Isaiah the Solitary
"And so it is incumbent upon us to strive, rather, to correct our faults and to improve our behavior." —St. John Cassian
"Let us strive to purify ourselves through repentance and humility, and to unite all our senses as one to the God who is good, and transcends the good. Then, truly, everything which I have not quite been able to say or to demonstrate with my many words, you will be taught in an instant, all at once. You will hear with your sight, and see with your hearing. You will be taught while seeing and, again, hear what is unveiled." —St. Symeon the New Theologian
"If we have obtained the grace of God, none shall prevail against us, but we shall be stronger than all who oppose us." —St. John Chrysostom
"In imitation of the method of the bee, I shall make my composition from those things which are conformable with the truth and from our enemies themselves gather the fruit of salvation. But I shall reject all that is worthless and falsely labeled as knowledge." —St. John the Damascene
"But our opinion is in accordance with the Eucharist, and the Eucharist in turn establishes our opinion." —St. Irenaeus
"Don't be anxious about what you have, but about what you are." —St. Gregory the Great
"The man who cries out against evil men, but does not pray for them will never know the grace of God." —St. Silouan the Athonite
"Those who dislike and reject their fellow-man are impoverished in their being. They do not know the true God, who is all-embracing love." —St. Silouan the Athonite
"I guard you in advance against beasts in the form of men, whom you must not only not receive, but if it is possible not even meet, but only pray for them, if perchance they may repent…" —St. Ignatius of Antioch
"If we detect hatred in our hearts against any man whatsoever for committing any fault, we are utterly estranged from love for God, since love for God absolutely precludes us from hating any man." —St. Maximus the Confessor
"Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible." —St. Augustine
"The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works." —St. Augustine
"The evil powers love the darkness and tremble at every light, especially at that which belongs to God and to those who please Him." ―St. Nikolai Velimirovich
"The one who has not yet obtained divine knowledge activated by love makes a lot of the religious works he performs. But the one who has been deemed worthy to obtain this says with conviction the words which the patriarch Abraham spoke when he was graced with the divine appearance, 'I am but earth and ashes.'" —St. Maximus the Confessor
"You should look downward. Remember: you are earth and you will return to the earth." —St. Ambrose of Optina
"Just as a pauper, seeing the royal treasures, all the more acknowledges his own poverty; so also the spirit, reading the accounts of the great deeds of the Holy Fathers, involuntarily is all the more humbled in its way of thought." —St. John Climacus
"Do not shun poverty and affliction, the fuel that gives wings to prayer." —Evagrios the Solitary
"Some suffer much from poverty and sickness, but are not humbled, and so they suffer without profit. But one who is humbled will be happy in all circumstances, because the Lord is his riches and joy, and all people will wonder at the beauty of his soul." —St. Silouan the Athonite
"My joy, I beg you, acquire the Spirit of Peace. That means to bring oneself to such a state that our spirit will not be disturbed by anything. For one must go through many sorrows to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. This is the way all righteous men were saved and inherited the Heavenly Kingdom…" —St. Seraphim of Sarov
"However great the afflictions we suffer, what are they compared with the promised future reward." —St. Makarios of Egypt
"Shun the praise of men and love the one who, in the fear of the Lord, reprimands you." —St. Pachomius
"When people begin to praise us, let us hurry to remember the multitude of ours transgressions, and we will see that we are truly unworthy of that which they say and do in our honor." —St. John Climacus
"…Don't be frightened at your burden; our Lord will help you to carry it." —St. John Vianney
"Every tribulation reveals the state of our will." —St. Mark the Ascetic
"The devil presents minor sins as insignificant in our eyes, because otherwise he would not be able lead us into major ones." —St. Mark the Ascetic
"Do not leave unobliterated any fault, however small, for it may lead you on to greater sins." —St. Mark the Ascetic
"He who honours the Lord does what the Lord bids. When he sins or is disobedient, he patiently accepts what comes as something he deserves." —St. Mark the Ascetic
"It is a great error to think that you must undertake important and great labors, whether for heaven, or, as the 'progressives' think, in order to make one's contribution to humanity. That is not necessary at all. It is necessary only to do everything in accordance with the Lord's commandments." —St. Theophan the Recluse
"I saw the snares that the enemy spreads out over the world and I said groaning, "What can get through from such snares?" Then I heard a voice saying to me, "Humility."" ―St. Anthony the Great
"A life lived in the world can be as good, in the eyes of God, as one spent in a monastery. It is indeed only the keeping of God's commandments, love of all, and a true sense of humility that matter, wherever we are." —Elder Macarius of Optina
"Those who, because of the rigor of their own ascetic practice, despise the less zealous, think that they are made righteous by physical works. But we are even more foolish if we rely on theoretical knowledge and disparage the ignorant." —St. Mark the Ascetic
"Guard your speech from boasting and your thoughts from presumption; otherwise you may be abandoned by God and fall into sin. For man cannot do anything good without the help of God, who sees everything." —St. Mark the Ascetic
"If any man is able in power to continue in purity, to the honour of the flesh of our Lord, let him continue so without boasting; if he boasts, he is undone; if he become known apart from the bishop, he has destroyed himself." —St. Ignatius of Antioch
"Guarding the mouth wakes up the conscience to God, if it is with knowledge that a man keeps silence." —St. Isaac the Syrian
"Never give your opinion if you are not asked for it, even if you think that your view is the best." ―St. Josemaria Escriva
"Let your mouth continually administer blessing; then the scorn of anyone will never hurt you." —St. Isaac the Syrian
"Humility consists, not in condemning our conscience, but in recognizing God's grace and compassion." —St. Mark the Ascetic
"Those who suffer for the sake of true devotion receive help. This must be learnt through obeying God's law and our own conscience." —St. Mark the Ascetic
"When you are wronged and your heart and feelings are hardened, do not be distressed, for this has happened providentially; but be glad and reject the thoughts that arise within you, knowing that if they are destroyed at the stage when they are only provocations, their evil consequences will be cut off, whereas if the thoughts persist the evil may be expected to develop." —St. Mark the Ascetic
"Struggle to become immortal from now, by dying here on the earth to your bad self. In this way, you won't be sad, but you'll be very glad, living together with Christ." —Elder Porphyrios
"I saw that there was no tragedy in God. Tragedy is to be found solely in the fortunes of the man whose gaze has not gone beyond the confines of this earth." —Archimandrite Sophrony
"Humility and suffering free a man from all sin; for the first cuts out spiritual passions, and the latter bodily." —St. Maximus the Confessor
"Man's will, out of cowardice, tends away from suffering, and man, against his own will, remains utterly dominated by the fear of death, and, in his desire to live, clings to his slavery to pleasure." —St. Maximus the Confessor
"He who believes, fears; he who fears is humble; he who is humble becomes gentle." —St. Maximus the Confessor
"Not every quiet man is humble, but every humble man is quiet." —St. Isaac the Syrian
"You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of the foundation of humility. And how great soever a mass of building one may wish and design to place above it, the greater the building is to be, the deeper does he dig his foundation." —St. Augustine
"A humble person lives on earth as if in the Kingdom of Heaven - always happy, peaceful and satisfied with everything." —St. Anthony of Optina
"A servant of the Lord is he who in body stands before men, but in mind knocks at Heaven with prayer." —St. John Climacus
"I do not worship matter, but the Creator of matter, who for my sake became material and deigned to dwell in matter, who through matter effected my salvation…" —St. John of Damascus
"Our prayer reflects our attitude towards God. He who is careless of salvation has a different attitude toward God from him who has abandoned sin and is zealous for virtue but has not yet entered within himself and works for the Lord only outwardly. Finally, he who has entered within and carries the Lord within himself, standing before Him, has yet another attitude. The first man is negligent in prayer, just as he is negligent in life, and he prays in church and at home merely according to the established custom, without attention or feeling. The second man reads many prayers and goes often to church, trying at the same time to keep his attention from wandering and to experience feelings in accordance with the prayers which are read, al though he is seldom successful. The third man, wholly concentrated within, stands with his mind before God, and prays to Him in his heart without distraction, without long verbal prayers, even when standing for a long time at prayer in his home or in church. … Every prayer must come from the heart and any other prayer is no prayer at all. Prayer-book prayers, your own prayers and very short prayers, all must issue forth from the heart to God, seen before you." —St. Theophan the Recluse
"Chastisement through the trials imposed on us is a spiritual rod, teaching us humility when in our foolishness we think too much of ourselves." —St. Thalassios the Libyan
"To exalt oneself is one thing, not to do so another, and to humble oneself is something less entirely. A man may always be passing judgement on others, while another man passes judgement neither on others nor on himself. A third, however, though actually guiltless, may always be passing judgement on himself." —St. John Climacus
"It is not then wealth that is the foundation of pleasure, nor poverty of sadness, but our own judgment and the fact that the eyes of our mind neither see clearly nor remain fixed in one place, but flutter abroad." —St. John Chrysostom
"In whatever state a person is, he sometimes finds himself making pure and intense prayers. For even from that first and lowest sort, which has to do with recalling the future judgment, the one who is still subject to the punishment of terror and the fear of judgment is occasionally so struck with compunction that he is filled with no less joy of spirit from the richness of his supplication than the one who, examining the kindnesses of God and going over them in the purity of his heart, dissolves into unspeakable gladness and delight. For, according to the words of the Lord, the one who realizes that more has been forgiven him begins to love more." —St. John Cassian
"You cannot be too gentle, too kind. Shun even to appear harsh in your treatment of each other. Joy, radiant joy, streams from the face of him who gives and kindles joy in the heart of him who receives. All condemnation is from the devil. Never condemn each other. We condemn others only because we shun knowing ourselves. When we gaze at our own failings, we see such a swamp that nothing in another can equal it. That is why we turn away, and make much of the faults of others. Instead of condemning others, strive to reach inner peace. Keep silent, refrain from judgment. This will raise you above the deadly arrows of slander, insult and outrage and will shield your glowing hearts against all evil." —St. Seraphim of Sarov
"The sun shines on all alike, and vainglory beams on all activities. For instance, I am vainglorious when I fast; and when I relax the fast in order to be unnoticed, I am again vainglorious over my prudence. When well-dressed I am quite overcome by vainglory, and when I put on poor clothes I am vainglorious again. When I talk I am defeated, and when I am silent I am again defeated by it. However I throw this prickly-pear, a spike stands upright." —St. John Climacus
"Fire and water do not mix, neither can you mix judgment of others with the desire to repent. If a man commits a sin before you at the very moment of his death, pass no judgment, because the judgment of God is hidden from men. It has happened that men have sinned greatly in the open but have done greater deeds in secret, so that those who would disparage them have been fooled, with smoke instead of sunlight in their eyes." —St. John Climacus
"Do not be surprised that you fall every day; do not give up, but stand your ground courageously. And assuredly, the angel who guards you will honor your patience." —St. John Climacus
"…a fall is often an occasion of humility for those who are willing to use it to their advantage." —St. John Climacus
"Humility is the only thing that no devil can imitate." —St. John Climacus
"An angel fell from Heaven without any other passion except pride, and so we may ask whether it is possible to ascend to Heaven by humility alone, without any other of the virtues." —St. John Climacus
"Run from pride, for it is a passion more treacherous than any other." —St. John Chrysostom
"He who in his heart is proud of his tears and secretly condemns those who do not weep is like a man who asks the king for a weapon against his enemy and then commits suicide with it." —St. John Climacus
"Fasting is for the purification of the soul and body." —St. John Chrysostom
"Fasting is wonderful, because it tramples our sins like a dirty weed, while it cultivates and raises truth like a flower." —St. Basil the Great
"Fasting is the mother of health; the friend of chastity; the partner of humility." —St. Symeon the New theologian
"As salt is needed for all kinds of food, so humility is needed for all kinds of virtues." —St. Isaac the Syrian
"Let it be known to you that if in your life you have mastered every virtue and every good deed such as mercy, prayer, fast, and other virtues but have no humility in you, your toil will be in vain. For humility in all these virtues is the solid foundation. Without it, we cannot master any of the virtues and all these virtues will become impure, filthy, and discarded before God because they were not sown with humility and love." —St. John Chrysostom
"Fasting is the mother of health; the friend of chastity; the partner of humility." —St. Symeon the New theologian
"What can sin do where there is penitence? And of what use is love where there is pride?" —Abba Elias
"Pride is poverty of the soul, which imagines itself to be rich, and being in darkness, thinks it has light." —St. John Climacus
"You are not making a gift of what is yours to the poor man, but you are giving him back what is his. You have been appropriating things that are meant to be for the common use of everyone. The earth belongs to everyone, not to the rich." —St. Ambrose of Milan
"No one in creation is rich but he that fears God; no one is truly poor but he that lacks the truth." —St. Ephrem the Syrian
"In all your undertakings and in every way of life, whether you are living in obedience, or are not submitting your work to anyone, whether in outward or in spiritual matters, let it be your rule and practice to ask yourself: Am I really doing this in accordance with God's will?" —St. John Climacus
"Those who submit to the Lord with simple heart will run the good race. If they keep their minds on a leash, they will not draw the wickedness of the demons onto themselves." —St. John Climacus
"I prefer a man who sins and repents to one who does not sin and does not repent. The first has good thoughts, for he admits that he is sinful. But the second has false, soul-destroying thoughts, for he imagines himself to be righteous." —Abba Poemen the Great
"At meals don't speak about food: that's vulgar and unworthy of you. Speak about something noble -- of the soul or of the mind -- and you will have dignified this duty." ―St. Josemaria Escriva
"The man who is deemed worthy to see himself is greater than he who is deemed worthy to see angels." —St. Isaac the Syrian
"The truly blessed are not the ones who can work miracles or see angels; the truly blessed are the ones who can see their own sins." ―St. Anthony the Great
"The way to perfection is through the realization that we are blind, naked and poor." —St. Theophan the Recluse
"Everyday I lay a foundation for building my repentance, and again with my own hands I demolish it." —St. Ephrem the Syrian
"Every day at nightfall, before sleep comes upon you, excite the judgment of your conscience, demand an account from it, and whatever evil counsels you may have taken during the day … pierce them, tear them to pieces, and do penance for them." —St. John Chrysostom
"As I became more wretched you drew nearer to me." —St. Augustine
"Sin is the fruit of free will. There was a time when sin did not exist, and there will be a time when it will not exist." —St. Isaac the Syrian
"Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing." —St. Thérèse de Lisieux
"How long shall we continue in this manner, our intellect reduced to futility, failing to make the spirit of the Gospel our own, not knowing what it means to live according to our conscience, making no serious effort to keep it pure?" —St. Mark the Ascetic
"Do not leave unobliterated any fault, however small, for it may lead you on to greater sins." —St. Mark the Ascetic
"Having fulfilled a commandment, expect temptations; because love toward Christ is tested by difficulties." —St. Mark the Ascetic
"So in every test, let us say: "Thank you, my God, because this was needed for my salvation."" —Elder Paisios of Mount Athos
"Make sure that you do not limit your prayer merely to a particular part of the day. Turn to prayer at anytime." —St John Chrysostom
"The Lord knows that I love you all, but I cannot speak with God and people at the same time." —St. Arsanius the Great
"A Christian…is not his own master; he puts his time at God's disposal." —St. Ignatius of Antioch
"Do not seek the perfection of the Law in human virtues … Its perfection is hidden in the Cross of Christ." —St. Mark the Ascetic
"The knowledge of the Cross is concealed in the sufferings of the Cross." —St. Isaac the Syrian
"God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering." —St. Augustine
"Man is, by nature, afraid of both death and the dissolution of the body; but there is this most startling fact: that he who has put on the faith of the Cross despises even what is naturally fearful, and for Christ's sake is not afraid even of death." —St. Athanasius the Great
"Only struggle a little more. Carry your cross without complaining. Don't think you are anything special. Don't justify your sins and weaknesses, but see yourself as you really are. And, especially, love one another." ―Fr. Seraphim Rose
"When you meet with suffering, contempt, the Cross, your thought should be: what is this compared with what I deserve?" ―St. Josemaria Escriva
"He made Him who was righteous to be a sinner, that He might make sinners righteous." —St. John Chrysostom
"Our life and our death is with our neighbor.
If we gain our brother, we have gained God, but if we scandalize our brother, we have sinned against Christ.
This is the great work of a man: always to take the blame for his own sins before God and to expect temptation to his last breath." —St. Anthony the Great
"We shall not care what people think of us, or how they treat us. We shall cease to be afraid of falling out of favour. We shall love our fellow men without thought of whether they love us. Christ gave us the commandment to love others but did not make it a condition of salvation that they should love us. Indeed, we may positively be disliked for independence of spirit. It is essential in these days to be able to protect ourselves from the influence of those with whom we come in contact. Otherwise we risk losing both faith and prayer. Let the whole world dismiss us as unworthy of attention, trust or respect – it will not matter provided that the Lord accept us. And vice versa: it will profit us nothing if the whole world thinks well of us and sings our praises, if the Lord declines to abide with us. This is only a fragment of the freedom Christ meant when He said, 'Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free' (John 8.32). Our sole care will be to continue in the word of Christ, to become His disciples and cease to be servants of sin." —His Life is Mine, Archimandrite Sophrony
"The time of this present life is a time for harvesting, and each person gathers spiritual food - as pure as possible - and stores it up for the other life. It is not the clever, the noble, the polished speakers, or the rich who win, but whoever is insulted and forbears, whoever is wronged and forgives, whoever is slandered and endures, whoever becomes a sponge and mops up whatever they might say to him. Such a person is cleansed and polished even more. He reaches great heights. He delights in the theoria of mysteries. And finally, it is he who is already inside paradise, while still in this life." —Elder Joseph the Hesychast and Cave-dweller
"When you are ready to stand in the presence of the Lord, let your soul wear a garment woven from the cloth of your forgiveness of others. Otherwise, your prayer will be of no value whatsoever." —St. John Climacus
"Love alone harmoniously joins all created things with God and with each other." —St. Thalassios the Libyan
"A monk is he who withdrawing from all men, is united with all mankind. … A monk is he who regards himself as existing with all men and sees himself in each man." —St. Nilus of Sinai
"Love towards Christ is without limits, and the same is true of love towards our neighbour. It should radiate everywhere, to the ends of the earth, to every person. I wanted to go and live with the hippies at ....... in order to show them the love of Christ and how great it is and how it could transfigure them. Love is above everything." —Wounded by Love, Elder Porphyrios, pg 188
"The man who loves his neighbor as himself possesses no more than his neighbor…thus, as much as your wealth increases, so much does your love decrease." —St. Basil the Great
"Do not consider your riches as belonging to yourselves alone; open wide your hand to those who are in need." —St. Cyril of Alexandria
"All the things of this world are no more than earth. Place them in a heap under your feet and you will be so much nearer to heaven." ―St. Josemaria Escriva
"For every argument there is a counter-argument, but who can argue against life?" —St. Gregory Palamas
"O God, grant us a deeper sense of fellowship with all living things, our little brothers and sisters to whom in common with us you have given this earth as home. We recall with regret that in the past we have acted high-handedly and cruelly in exercising our domain over them. Thus, the voice of the earth which should have risen to you in song has turned into a groan of travail. May we realize that all these creatures also live for themselves and for you - not for us alone. They too love the goodness of life, as we do, and serve you better in their way than we do in ours. Amen." —St. Basil the Great
"Look at the world around you. It supplies all your bodily needs. It feasts your eyes with its beauty. And its glory reflects the glory of God, so it feasts your soul also. Look at the plants and the trees. Can you count all the different species? Can you describe all the different shapes of the leaves, the color and fragrances of the flowers? Look, too, at the animals and the insects. Are you not enthralled by their different sizes and shapes, by the different colors and textures of their skin and fur, by the different ways in which they move about and gather food? And the wonder why God has created all this. Has he created the marvelous universe just to supply our needs and to feast our eyes and souls? or is there some other purpose in it all? The answer is that he has created all things--for their own sake. Each creature has its own purpose and destiny, which God in his infinite wisdom and love has planned. Do not try to understand God's plans; the human mind is hardly better than that of an ant in discerning the ways of God. Simply accept all his plans and rejoice in them." — St. John Chrysostom
"Some people see the houses in which they live as their kingdom; and although in their minds they know that death will one day force them to leave, in their hearts they feel they will stay forever. They take pride in the size of their houses and the fine material with which they are built. They take pleasure in decorating their houses with bright colors, and in obtaining the best and most solid furniture to fill the rooms. They imagine that they can find peace and security by owning a house whose walls and roof will last for many generations. We, by contrast, know that we are only temporary guests on earth. We recognize that the houses in which we live serve only as hostels on the road to eternal life. We do not seek peace or security from the material walls around us or the roof above our heads. Rather we want to surround ourselves with a wall of divine grace; and we look upward to heaven as our roof. And the furniture of our lives should be good works, performed in a spirit of love." —St. John Chrysostom
"A man who has dedicated himself once and for all to God goes through life with a restful mind." —St. Isaac the Syrian
"Do you seek any further reward beyond that of having pleased God? In truth, you know not how great a good it is to please Him." —St. John Chrysostom
"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe." —St. Augustine
"'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets." —Matthew 22:37-40
"And Thomas answered and said to Him, "My Lord and my God!"" —John 20:28
"For the Father judges no one, but has committed all judgment to the Son, that all should honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him." —John 5:22-23
"But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you…" —Matthew 5:44
"Hatred stirs up strife, But love covers all sins." —Proverbs 10:12
"Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall." —Proverbs 16:18
"Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; A stranger, and not your own lips." —Proverbs 27:2
"If a wise man contends with a foolish man, Whether the fool rages or laughs, there is no peace." —Proverbs 29:9
"Childless with virtue is better than this, For immortality is in its memory; Because it is known both by God and by man." —Wisdom of Solomon 4:1
"Jesus wept." —John 11:35
"Blessed are the poor in spirit, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, For they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek, For they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, For they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful, For they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, For they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, For they shall be called sons of God. Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven." —Matthew 5:3-10
"Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up." —James 4:7-10
"Then Abraham answered and said, "Indeed now, I who am but dust and ashes have taken it upon myself to speak to the Lord."" —Genesis 18:27
"And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, "God, be merciful to me a sinner!"" —Luke 18:13
"This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief." —1 Timothy 1:15
"for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God…" —Romans 3:23
"And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it." —Matthew 16:18
"Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit…" —Matthew 28:19
"Then Peter said to them, "Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit."" —Acts 2:38
"Then, the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, "Peace be with you." When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord.
"So Jesus said to them again, "Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you." And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained."" —John 20:19-23
"After these things the Lord appointed seventy others also and sent them two by two before His face into every city and place where He Himself was about to go." —Luke 10:1
"Then the twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, "It is not desirable that we should leave the word of God and serve tables. Therefore, brethren, seek out from among you seven men of good reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business; but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word."" —Acts 6:2-4
"Obey those who rule over you, and be submissive, for they watch out for your souls, as those who must give account. Let them do so with joy and not with grief, for that would be unprofitable for you." —Hebrews 13:17
"Now on the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul, ready to depart the next day, spoke to them and continued his message until midnight." —Acts 20:7
"Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is drink indeed. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him." —John 6:53-56
"The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? For we, though many, are one bread and one body; for we all partake of that one bread." —1 Corinthians 10:16-17
"…but if I am delayed, I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth." —1 Timothy 3:15
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations." —Jeremiah 1:5
"But now indeed there are many members, yet one body. And the eye cannot say to the hand, "I have no need of you"; nor again the head to the feet, "I have no need of you." No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary. And those members of the body which we think to be less honorable, on these we bestow greater honor; and our unpresentable parts have greater modesty, but our presentable parts have no need. But God composed the body, having given greater honor to that part which lacks it, that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another. And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.
"Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually. And God has appointed these in the church…" —1 Corinthians 12:20-28
"Do not remove the ancient landmark Which your fathers have set." —Proverbs 22:28
"Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the traditions which you were taught, whether by word or our epistle." —2 Thessalonians 2:15
"For the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath." —Matthew 12:8
"Having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross." —Colossians 2:14
"So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths, which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ." —Colossians 2:16-17
"For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace." —Romans 6:14
"One person esteems one day above another; another esteems every day alike. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind. He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he who does not eat, to the Lord he does not eat, and gives God thanks." —Romans 14:5-6
"…and to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might win Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might win those who are under the law." —1 Corinthians 9:20
"For the administration of this service not only supplies the needs of the saints, but also is abounding through many thanksgivings to God." —2 Corinthians 9:12
"These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so." —Acts 17:11
"So Philip ran to him, and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, "Do you understand what you are reading?"" —Acts 8:30
"So they read distinctly from the book, in the Law of God; and they gave the sense, and helped them to understand the reading." —Nehemiah 8:8
"And when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. So it was that for a whole year they assembled with the church and taught a great many people. And the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch." —Acts 11:26
"Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world." —1 John 4:1
"They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us." —1 John 2:19
"…for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men?" —1 Corinthians 3:3
"Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?" —1 Corinthians 1:13
"Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand." —Matthew 12:25
"Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are." —1 Corinthians 3:16-17
"Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment." —1 Corinthians 1:10
"…endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism;" —Ephesians 4:3-5
"For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ." —1 Corinthians 3:11
"I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me." —Galatians 2:20
"If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth." —Colossians 3:1-2
"I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours." —John 17:9
"The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness For His name's sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; My cup runs over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me All the days of my life; And I will dwell in the house of the Lord Forever." —Psalm 23
"Truly my soul finds rest in God; my salvation comes from him. Truly he is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will never be shaken. One thing God has spoken, two things I have heard: "Power belongs to you, God, and with you, Lord, is unfailing love"; and, "You reward everyone according to what they have done."" —Psalm 62:1-2,11,12
"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning." —James 1:17
"Now there is no more chaos, no more death, no more slaying, no more Hell. Now everything is joy, thanks to the resurrection of our Christ. Human nature is resurrected with Him. Now we too can rise again that we might live with Him eternally … What bliss is contained in the Resurrection! In every sorrow, with every failure, in anything that causes you pain, collect yourself for half a minute and slowly say this hymn. Then, you will see that the most important thing in your life and in the life of the entire universe has already been accomplished with the resurrection of Christ. It is our salvation. And then, you realize that all our setbacks are so insignificant, that you don't need to allow them to spoil your mood." —Elder Porphryios
"Let no one fear death; for the death of the Savior has set us free." —St. John Chrysostom
"He who is initiated into the mystery of the Resurrection, learns the end for which God created all things." —St. Maximus the Confessor
"Since Christ Himself has said, "This is My Body" who shall dare to doubt that It is His Body?" —St. Cyril of Jerusalem
"You freed me from slavery, gave me Your Name and marked me with Your Blood, so that I would always keep You in my heart." —St. Augustine
"When someone opens your heart, I'd like him to find nothing there but Christ." —Elder Amphilochios of Patmos
"To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek Him, the greatest adventure; to find Him, the greatest achievement." —St. Augustine
"The end of each discovery becomes the starting point for the discovery of something higher, and the ascent continues. Thus our ascent is unending. We go from beginning to beginning by way of beginnings without end." —St. Gregory of Nyssa
"He is with me, He who left the world behind. He is present in me, He who left His nature. He dwells in me, He who denied Himself. He is wholly for me, He who lost His life for me." —St. Ambrose of Milan
"You brought us into being out of nothing, and when we fell, You raised us up again." — St. John Chrysostom
"You did not cease doing everything until You led us to heaven and granted us Your kingdom to come." —St. John Chrysostom
"For You are God ineffable, beyond comprehension, invisible, beyond understanding, existing forever and always the same." —St. John Chrysostom
"If there is any rest for us in this world, then it consists only in purity of the conscience and patience. This is a harbor for us who sail upon the sea of life…" —St. Tikhon of Zadonsk
"There are far, far better things ahead than anything we leave behind." —C.S. Lewis
"The Son of God became man, that we might become god." —St. Athanasius of Alexandria
"becoming by grace what God is by nature." —St. Athanasius of Alexandria
"Thine own of Thine own we Offer unto Thee, in behalf of all and for all!" —Anaphora offering (OCA), Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom