Fr. Charalampos Papadopoulos
Unforeseen situations are contrary to God’s will and our desires, and that’s why they seem unforeseen to us. But in fact, they’re not unforeseen.
Archpriest Andrew Lemeshonok
Love is the greatest gift of God that man can receive in this temporary world.
Stanislav Minakov
When she returned to Kiev, Olga brought with her icons, liturgical books, and the determination to convert the Russian people to Christianity.
Priest Sergei Chernyak
Indeed, this is our goal—to understand what God wants from us, where to go, how to lead our lives, how to think about God, how to change ourselves.
Fr. James Guirguis
St. Apostle Paul takes an earthly reality and he uses it to bring to light an even greater spiritual reality. He uses this language of freedom and slavery with a completely different purpose.
St. John Chrysostom
So, what does Jesus do? He does something He never did before. In all the other cases He complied with the petitioners’ requests. But here He Himself forestalls the centurion’s wish and promises not only to heal the servant, but also to come to his house.
Archpriest Gregory Dyachenko
The Most Holy Virgin Theotokos is the special protectress of pious Christians.
Fr. Lawrence Farley
Christ had compassion on the sinful woman, as He has compassion on all. We must at least try to see others as they are so that we might share with them Christ’s compassion.
Hieromonk Ignaty (Shestakov)
In fact, it was not just a ruler who was killed, but a family. It was the terrible and demonstrative murder of a Russian family. They stormed into a domestic church and smashed everything inside, flooding everything with blood, desecrating everything, and then the history of our people in the twentieth century was stained with this blood.
Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol
Revelation was written to give us the optimistic message that everything that is, that was, and that will be should not lead us to despair and scare us, but we should know that God will prevail in the end.
The Apostle John greatly wept because there was no one worthy to come and take this book and open it and look upon it.
Metropolitan Isidore of Smolensk and Dorogobuzh
Apostolic service is a direct response to God’s call to the work of preaching the Gospel, and it is fraught with many difficulties and trials.
Hieromonk Pavel (Shcherbachev)
Occupying a historical place in the work of creating the Church, the apostles are the core, the backbone, and penetrating thread.
His test was simple and straightforward. He gave them a directive and a promise and they would either respond with obedience in faith or they would reject His invitation.
Archimandrite Silouan (Pasenko)
“I want to dedicate my victory to Him,” Bobrovsky concluded at the beginning of his post-victory interview, slightly raising his right hand towards the sky.
Metropolitan Tryphon (Turkestanov)
Her parents asked her, “What happened to you?” “Didn't you see how the Queen of Heaven came out of that corner?” the girl replied.
Our Orthodox devotion to Mary (whom we call “the Theotokos”) often heads the list of Protestant objections, since it features so prominently in Roman Catholicism.
Metropolitan Seraphim (Joanta) of Germany and Central Europe
The family is a place where God's love should dwell. The family is an icon of the Holy Trinity.
Protodeacon Vladimir Vasilik
The poisonous slogans, “there is no need to create poverty” and “you will still have children”, destroyed many more people than the carpet bombing of Korean cities and the burning of Vietnamese villages with napalm.
Among my acquaintances with many children, there was no case where doctors in consultation or even in the prenatal ward did not blackmail expectant mothers and try to persuade them to have an abortion under one pretext or another.