Orthodox Church Quotes:

All my theology is reduced to this narrow compass - "Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners."

- Archibald Alexander

source: "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 580, 1895.

topic: Jesus, Orthodox Church, World, Orthodox Christian, Pilgrims Progress

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 one who gives and kindles joy in the heart of one who receives.

- Seraphim of Sarov

source: "The Ladder of the Beatitudes". Book by Jim Forest, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1999.

topic: Kindness, Heart, Giving, Orthodox Christian, Orthodox Church

Give us this day our daily mask.

- Tom Stoppard

topic: Giving, Mask, This Day, Praying To God, Kingdom Come

The Kingdom of God is Within You.

- Leo Tolstoy

source: Leo Tolstoy (2013). “The Non-Fiction of Leo Tolstoy: (Includes A Confession, The Kingdom of God is Within You, A Letter to a Hindu, Youth, Tolstoy on Shakespeare, What to Do)”, p.138, Golgotha Press

topic: Jesus, Christ Consciousness, Gnosis, Kingdom Of Heaven, Chariots

Creative experience foreshadows a new Heaven and a new Earth.

- Nikolai Berdyaev

topic: Heaven, Creative, Earth, Book Of Revelation, Orthodox Church

The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.

- Benjamin Rush

topic: Hell, Gates Of Hell, Gates, Keys To The Kingdom, Knowing Jesus

Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

- John the Baptist

topic: World, Lambs, Sin, Lamb Of God, Last Supper

The one thing that the Catholic Church desires, and that I seek as Bishop of Rome, “the Church which presides in charity”, is communion with the Orthodox Churches.

- Pope Francis

topic: Rome, Catholic, Church, Orthodox Church

Christ is our hope, our cleansing and santification, our resurrection, life and repose. He alone is what we all need, and therefore, the Orthodox Church constantaly pronounces these words aloud so that we may hear them during Holy Services of the Church, and be constantly renewed. For we are inclined to forget the only thing we need. With death all will be taken from us, all earthly goods, riches, beauty of body and raiment, spacious dwellings, etc., but the virtue of the soul, that incorruptible raiment, shall remain with us eternally.

- John of Kronstadt

topic: Life, Taken, Dwelling, Orthodox Church

I really do feel that these people are brothers and sisters in God's family. I am looking to build bridges with the Orthodox Church, looking to build bridges with the Catholic Church, with the Anglican church.

- Rick Warren

topic: Brother, Bridges, People, Orthodox Church

Orthodox churches, autocracy and national traditions are supposed to form a new national ideology in Russia. This would mean that Russia would be overtaken by its past, and our past would be our future.

- Vladimir Sorokin

topic: Mean, Past, Russia, Orthodox Church, Autocracy

[Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of the young psychoanalysts as your colleagues, collaborators and partners and not as spies, traitors and wayward children. You can never develop a science that way, only an orthodox church.

- Abraham Maslow

source: "New Pathways in Psychology: Maslow and the Post-Freudian Revolution". Book by Colin Wilson, November 1960.

topic: Children, Science, Thinking, Orthodox Church, Collaborators

The brother of my grandfather was the patriarch of the Orthodox Church and revered as a saint. So everything in my childhood is about total sacrifice, whether to religion or to communism. This is what is engraved on me. This is why I have this insane willpower. My body is now beginning to be falling apart, but I will do it to the end. I don't care. With me it is about whatever it takes.

- Marina Abramovic

topic: Brother, Fall, Sacrifice, Engraved, Orthodox Church

[Pope Francis] did something that both his two predecessors had failed to do - John Paul II and Benedict. Francis met with the Russian patriarch of the Orthodox Church.

- Sylvia Poggioli

topic: Two, Church, John Paul Ii, John Paul, Orthodox Church

Basically what Salomé did with Rilke as a mentor was direct him toward the Russian Orthodox Church, so he could project his love of the divine feminine onto the Virgin Mary. She wanted him to stop the cycle of being disappointed by the ultimate humanity of women. She was like, "You don't want me, you want the Virgin Mary." It's kind of a mystical concept! She also changed Freud's opinion, a little bit too late, about the female psyche, which he had so wrong. If it had been better publicized, it would have changed Western society's perception of the female psyche, too.

- Laura Marling

source: Source: www.mtv.com

topic: Divine Feminine, Humanity, Perception, Orthodox Church, Western Society

We have to separate here the church in its broad sense. We have Catholics, Protestants, Eastern Orthodox churches. The Catholic church is a corporation like a chief executive. A fairly homogenous operation. Today its attitude toward anti-Semitism is much more severe than it's ever been. The Catholic Church today is much less the problem than the other groups.

- Manfred Gerstenfeld

topic: Attitude, Church Today, Catholic, Orthodox Church, Chief Executives

Aesthetics is not an end in itself. But in our culture, which is becoming more multi-sensory and less respectful of God, we have a responsibility to pay attention to the design of the space where we assemble regularly. In the emerging culture, darkness represents spirituality. We see this in Buddhist temples, as well as Catholic and Orthodox churches. Darkness communicates that something serious is happening.

- Dan Kimball

topic: Buddhist, Responsibility, Space, Orthodox Church

The Reformed Church was identified with the old all-white government of South Africa and its apartheid policy. The Roman Catholic Church was closely identified with the Franco and Salazar dictatorships in Spain and Portugal. . . . More recently, . . . the Serbian Orthodox Church has come to be identified with the policies of Serbia (Yugoslavia).

- Edd Doerr

topic: Yugoslavia, White, Government, Orthodox Church, Portugal

Give any orthodox church the power, and to-day they would punish heresy with whip, and chain, and fire. As long as a church deems a certain belief essential to salvation, just so long it will kill and burn if it has the power.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

source: Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.119, Library of Alexandria

topic: Fire, Giving, Long, Orthodox Church, Whips And Chains

We have gone a long way toward civilization and religious tolerance, and we have a good example in this country. Here the many Protestant denominations, the Catholic Church and the Greek Orthodox Church do not seek to destroy one another in physical violence just because they do not interpret every verse of the Bible in exactly the same way. Here we now have the freedom of all religions, and I hope that never again will we have a repetition of religious bigotry, as we have had in certain periods of our own history. There is no room for that kind of foolishness here.

- Harry S. Truman

topic: Country, Religious, Civilization, Orthodox Church, Long Way

Easter celebrations are evidence of the increased benign influence of the Russian Orthodox Church and other traditional churches in our country on society.

- Vladimir Putin

source: "Orthodox Easter meets space age". www.cnn.com. May 5, 2002.

topic: Country, Easter, Church, Orthodox Church