#orthodox

Faith doesn't mean credulity; it means that the certainty remains about something which is not our actual present experience of things. ↗

— Metropolitan Anthony Bloom

#faith #orthodoxy #experience

Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#orthodoxy #imagination

Everything is defeated before love. ↗

— Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

#eastern-orthodoxy #inspirational #love #spirituality #inspirational

I would urge us to be not too certain of our accustomed ways of looking at Genesis, and to open ourselves to the wisdom of the God-bearing men of the past who have devoted so much intellectual effort to understanding the text of Genesis as it was meant to be understood. These Holy Fathers are our key to understanding Genesis. ↗

— Seraphim Rose

#christian #genesis #orthodox #men

A sad man, is man with the lights turned off. ↗

— Arsenie Boca

#inspirational #spirituality #inspirational

God’s love for the biggest sinner is greater than the love of the holiest man for God ↗

— Arsenie Boca

#inspirational #saints #spirituality #inspirational

If you will have patience in difficulties you know the Holy Spirit is within you, if you will also have the strength to be thankful in troubles than is when the Holy Spirit shines through you. ↗

— Arsenie Boca

#holy-spirit #inspirational #spirituality #inspirational

I came from the most orthodox background you could ask for. ↗

— Sonia Johnson

#background #came #could #i #i came

Antisemitism is unique among religious hatreds. It is a racist conspiracy theory fashioned for the needs of messianic and brutal rulers, as dictators from the Tsars to the Islamists via the Nazis have shown. Many other alleged religious 'hatreds' are not hatreds in the true sense. If I criticise Islamic, Orthodox Jewish or Catholic attitudes towards women, for instance, and I'm accused of being a bigot, I shrug and say it is not bigoted to oppose bigotry. ↗

— Nick Cohen

#bigotry #catholicism #conspiracy-theories #dictatorship #feminism

Orthodoxy is idolatry if it means holding the 'correct opinions about God' - 'fundamentalism' is the most extreme and salient example of such idolatry - but not if it means holding faith in the right way, that is, not holding it at all but being held by God, in love and service. Theology is idolatry if it means what we say about God instead of letting ourselves be addressed by what God has to say to us. Faith is idolatrous if it is rigidly self-certain but not if it is softened in the waters of 'doubt. ↗

— John D. Caputo

#faith #orthodoxy #theology #faith