Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow quotes

Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“However many and however great and burdensome your sins may be, with God there is greater mercy. Just as His majesty is, so likewise is His mercy.”
-- Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow

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“God descends to the humble as waters flow down from the hills into the valleys.”
-- Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow

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“But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.”
“It is not "forgive and forget" as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but "forgive and go forward," building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.”
“The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.”
“Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
“Warning: we may become so enamored with God's good gifts that we fail to worship the Giver.”
“The experience youâ€™ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it.”
“You always have to make positive choices as an actor, even when you're playing someone who may not be doing the best things.”

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“A dim consciousness of infinite mystery and grandeur lies beneath all the commonplace of life . There is an awfulness and a majesty around us, in all our little worldliness .”
“I love the majesty of human suffering.”

Source : La Maison du Berger (1844)
“Our Sovereign's Health, the Majesty of the People.”

Source : "The Younger Pitt. The Consuming Struggle" by John Ehrman,London: Constable, (p. 116), 1996.

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