St. Cyril of Jerusalem #1
Therefore the Dead is risen, He who was “free among the dead,” and deliverer of the dead. He patient…
St. Paisios the Athonite #1
The study of all Patristic books helps to warm your soul and increase your struggle to imitate the s…
St. Theophan the Recluse #1
Make it a rule for yourself from now on, that you will never pray haphazardly. Nothing offends the L…
St. Melito of Sardis #1
He who hung the earth is hanging.He who fixed the heavens in place has been fixed in place.He who la…
St. Kassiani the Hymnographer #1
Receive the sources of my tears, O Thou Who dost gather into clouds the water of the sea; in Thine i…
St. Innocent of Alaska #1
Truly, not a single earthly pleasure can satisfy our heart. We are strangers on earth, pilgrims and …
St. Maximus the Confessor #3
He that in imitation of God does almsdeeds knows no difference between evil and good, just and unjus…
St. John Chrysostom #1
The Cross is a sign of victory over the demons, the knife against sin, the sword by which Christ wou…
St. Gregory Palamas #2
Since the kingdom of God is at hand and within us and will soon arrive, let us make ourselves worthy…
St. Theodore the Studite #1
For what person with any sense does not understand the difference between an idol and an icon? That …
St. Joseph the Hesychast #1
Truly, my child, great is the struggle against the passions, but by the grace of God, everything can…
St. Basil the Great #1
Therefore run cheerfully to the gift of fasting. Fasting is an ancient gift, not one antiquated and …
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St. John of Kronstadt #1
Soon will come the days of fasting and repentance; let us all rush to cleanse ourselves from our sin…
St. Irenaeus of Lyons #1
So He united man with God and wrought a communion of God and man, we being unable to have any partic…
St. John the Wonderworker #1
In the womb of Mary, God and man were joined. She was the One Who served as it were as the ladder fo…
St. Gregory Palamas #1
He who defines all things and is limited by none is contained in a small, makeshift manger. He who h…
St. Maximus the Confessor #2
As much as He became comprehensible through the fact of His birth, by so much more do we now know Hi…
St. Silouan the Athonite #1
O my brethren the world over, repent while there is still time. God mercifully awaits our repentance…
St. Cyprian of Carthage #1
How great, dearest brothers, are the mysteries of the Lord’s Prayer, how many, how magnificent, gath…
St. Symeon the New Theologian #1
For if the multitude of the stars, or if all the drops of rain, or if the sand no one will be able t…
St. Maximus the Confessor #1
The one who loves God prefers knowledge of him to all things made by him and is constantly devoted t…
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Excerpts
Longer quotations from the saints of the Orthodox Church.
St. Maximus the Confessor: The Human Soul Comes Into Existence at Conception
“In addition to all these things, I am extremely apprehensive about admitting this particular …
St. John of Damascus on the <em>Communicatio Idiomatum</em>
"In the case of the person, however, whether we name it from both of the parts or from one of them, …
St. Paisius Velichkovsky on the Translator’s Task
"I began with all diligence to think and be concerned as to how I might correct the Slavonic Patrist…
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