Fr. Lawrence Farley
Tucked well away in the Divine Liturgy in a prayer that the priest says silently for himself we find a significant title of Christ.
Fr. Stephen Freeman
Whatever one might think of grace, the work of Christ on the Cross in no way removes the work of the Cross from the lives of believers.
Priest Tarasiy Borozenets
Nowadays many if not most people tend to believe more in the existence of aliens than in angels.
Many inquirers into Orthodoxy cannot understand the horror that the early church had of schism nor why modern Orthodox would insist on a convert being chrismated or re-baptized before receiving the Eucharist.
Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol
Those who follow the Lamb are the called, chosen, and faithful. It’s difficult to remain faithful to God, but at the same time, it’s the simplest thing we can do.
Those whose names aren’t written in the Book of Life, who aren’t God’s people, will be surprised and perplexed when they see this beast, which everyone thought was strong and robust, but it was a false picture.
Alexander Popov
After Foucault’s Pendulum, it became clear to me why Christianity forbids reading occult literature: It is too great a temptation for the proud mind.
Remain with the Church. Whoever remains with the Church remains in the ark of salvation. The Church will never disappear and never be deceived. Many cite the words of the Gospel that even the elect will be deceived. The elect may be deceived, but the Church—never.
The Evangelist says: “And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.”
Met. Athanasios explains that salvation depends on our choices to remain faithful to God's commandments, emphasizing that we should focus on our own spiritual vigilance and readiness rather than speculating about when apocalyptic events will occur.
Мet. Athanasios explains how the seven angels with plagues represent spiritual consequences of humanity's departure from God, and how faithful Christians will ultimately triumph over the antichrist like the Israelites crossing the Red Sea.
I give Thee thanks that Thou, God over all things, hast become one spirit with me without confusion, change, or alteration, and Thou hast become all in all to me!
Let us trust God. God will reap the harvest at the end of time, separate the good wheat from the chaff, give to everyone justly and make everything clear.
They sing a hymn; they’re together with the Lamb; they know the new song. The name of God is written on their foreheads; there’s no guile in them and they’re blameless.
Archbishop John (Shahovskoy)
Created by God, redeemed by Christ the Savior, the person does not belong to himself but to God. The sin is not in the fact of physical burning of the body but in the false direction of the person’s will to rule over God’s property, which his body is.
Reader John (Amir) Azarvan, Ph.D.
Many Protestants will acknowledge, of course, that works are important. But they insist that these are only signs—not preconditions—of salvation.
Fr. Moses McPherson discusses the profound spiritual and emotional burdens that come with priesthood, drawing from his 12 years of experience to explain what most people don’t understand about ordained life.
Archpriest Pavel Gumerov
St. Theophan the Recluse calls vainglory the “domestic thief.” It creeps up undetected and steals the work that we’ve undertaken for the sake of God and man and the reward for it.
The ideal world, according to communism, coheres well with the Christian view of the eschaton: a stateless, classless world. But communists err in thinking that man, alone, can arrive at or at least approach this end goal.
Revelation was written to tell us that Christ will prevail.
