In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy. — Peter Kreeft
Christian theology is the grandmother of Bolshevism. — Oswald Spengler
Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing anything terribly new. — Rob Bell
A man is eminent as long as he is orthodox. When he begins to think for himself he becomes a crank. — Walter Hadwen
I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish. — Tom T. Hall
Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism. — Abraham Kuyper
Christians are rare people on earth. — Martin Luther
May all Christians be found worthy of either the pure white crown of a holy life or the royal red crown of martyrdom. — Cyprian
Christian ethics is not primarily an individualistic, one-on-one-with-God brand of personal holiness; rather it has to do with living the life of the Spirit in Christian community and in the world. — Gordon Fee
Don't be a half-Christian. There are too many of such in the world. The world has a profound respect for people who are sincere in their faith. — Billy Graham
I'm a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order. — Mike Pence
Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged. — Rumi
Somebody as orthodox and as fond of the chainsaw as me. — Javier Milei
To be a Christian is to be a theologian-a student of God and his will. The contemporary disdain for theological content and emphasis on self-image and emotions were not shared by the apostolic church. — R. C. Sproul
Short Orthodox Christian Quotes
In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew. — Mahatma Gandhi
Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life. — Francis Schaeffer
Christians are like a thirteen year old kid who still believes in Santa. — Jim Jefferies
Top 10 Orthodox Christian Quotes
Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody thinks about changing himself. — Leo Tolstoy
God loves us more than a father, mother, friend, or any else could love, and even more than we are able to love ourselves. — Saint John Chrysostom
Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! — John the Baptist
These three things God requires of all the Baptized: right faith in the heart, truth on the tongue, temperance in the body. — Gregory of Nazianzus
Do not be surprised that you fall every day; do not give up, but stand your ground courageously. And assuredly, the angel who guards you will honour your patience. — John Climacus
Every success in anything we should refer to the Lord and with the Prophet say: 'Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to Your name give glory' (Ps. 113:9). — Seraphim of Sarov
The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it. — Benjamin Rush
It is like employing a small tool on big constructions, if we use human wisdom in the hunt for knowledge of reality. — Gregory of Nazianzus
The whole earth is a living icon of the face of God. — John of Damascus
Orthodox Christian Image Quotes
To be a christian means to forgive the inexcusable because god has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
Orthodox Christian Saint Quotes
Understand two thoughts, and fear them. One says, "You are a saint," the other, "You won't be saved." Both of these thoughts are from the enemy, and there is no truth in them. But think this way: I am a great sinner, but the Lord is merciful. He loves people very much, and He will forgive my sins. — Silouan the Athonite
The saints were people like all of us. Many of them came out of great sins, but by repentance they attained the Kingdom of Heaven. And everyone who comes there comes through repentance, which the merciful Lord has given us through His sufferings. — Silouan the Athonite
There is a single energy of God and the saints? they are living icons of Christ, being the same as He is, by grace rather than by assimilation. — Maximus the Confessor
An impatient Christian is out of step with God.
It is patience that reveals every grace to you, and it is through patience that the saints received all that was promised to them. — Pachomius the Great
In proportion as the ardor of divine love brings you nearer to God, so will a larger concourse of saintly brethren flock to you. For, as the Lord says, 'A city set on a hill cannot be hid' (Mt. 5:14). — John Cassian
All my theology is reduced to this narrow compass - "Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners." — Archibald Alexander
I am a Muslim and and a Hindu, and a Christian and a Jew, and so are, all of you.
'My sheep hear My voice' (Jn. 10:14). This is just another way of saying, 'They obey my words and keep My commandments.' Obeying the commandments the saints draw near to God; the more they draw near to God, the better they know Him. — Dorotheus of Gaza
Every sin that is left without repentance is a sin unto death, for which if even a saint shall pray, he shall not be heard. — Marcus Eremita
Who hated sin more than the saints? But they did not hate the sinners at the same time, nor condemn them, nor turn away from them. But they suffered with them, admonished them, comforted them. gave them remedies as sickly members, and did all they could to heal them. — Dorotheus of Gaza
In the mercy of God, the little thing done with humility will enable us to be found in the same place as the saints who have labored much and been true servants of God. — Dorotheus of Gaza
Christian Orthodox Quotes
The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, not heterodoxies, not atheists, not profane secularism - no, but the kind of orthodoxy which is cordial drivel, mediocrity served up sweet. There is nothing that so insidiously displaces the majestic as cordiality. — Soren Kierkegaard
Even if we have thousands of acts of great virtue to our credit, our confidence in being heard must be based on God's mercy and His love for men. Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved. — Saint John Chrysostom
Food is not evil, but gluttony is. Childbearing is not evil, but fornication is. Money is not evil, but avarice is. Glory is not evil, but vainglory is. Indeed, there is no evil in existing things, but only in their misuse. — Maximus the Confessor
Before becoming a Muslim, a Hindu, a Sikh or a Christian. Lets become a human first.
The Lord came to send fire upon the earth (cf. Lk. 12:49), and through participation in this fire He makes divine not just the human substance which He assumed for our sake, but every person who is found worthy of communion with Him. — Gregory Palamas
It is not he who begins well who is perfect. It is he who ends well who is approved in God's sight. — Saint Basil
...whoever is guided solely by his own judgment and decision will never climb up to the summit of perfection and will not fail to be the victim of the devil's ruinous power to delude. — John Cassian
If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor, then stop saying you want a country based on Christian values, because you don't
Our wickedness shall not overpower the unspeakable goodness and mercy of God; our dullness shall not overpower God's wisdom, nor our infirmity God's omnipotence. — John of Kronstadt
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
Never confuse the person, formed in the image of God, with the evil that is in him: because evil is but a chance misfortune, an illness, a devilish reverie. But the very essence of the person is the image of God, and this remains in him despite every disfigurement. — John of Kronstadt
Whoever you may be, always have God before your eyes; whatever you do, do it according to the testimony of the holy Scriptures; in whatever place you live, do not easily leave it. Keep these three precepts and you will be saved. — Anthony the Great
One should not seek among others the truth that can be easily gotten from the Church. For in her, as in a rich treasury, the apostles have placed all that pertains to truth, so that everyone can drink this beverage of life. She is the door of life. — Irenaeus of Lyons
Creative experience foreshadows a new Heaven and a new Earth. — Nikolai Berdyaev
Prayer is spiritual breathing; when we pray we breathe in the Holy Spirit; praying in the Holy Spirit (Jd. 1:20). Thus, all church prayers are the breathing of the Holy Spirit; as it were spiritual air and also light, spiritual fire, spiritual food and spiritual raiment. — John of Kronstadt
The Church has little idea how unorthodox it is at any given moment. If a church can't yet be perfectly orthodox, it can, with the Holy Spirit's help and by the grace of God, be perpetually reformable. — Brian D. McLaren
The likeness of Your Church, O Lord, is that woman who went behind and touched the hem of Your garment, saying within herself: 'If I do but touch His garment I shall be whole' (Mt. 9:21). So the Church confesses her wounds, but desires to be healed. — Ambrose
Even Martin Luther and John Calvin believed that the Roman Catholic church, up to the Council of Trent, was basically orthodox - a true church with sound fundamental doctrines as well as significant error. — Norman Geisler
The disciples worshipped the most high Lord Who had come down from heaven, made the earth into heaven and gone up again whence He came, having united things below with things above and formed one Church, at the same time heavenly and earthly, to the glory of His love for mankind. — Gregory Palamas
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
I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature. — Thomas Jefferson
Orthodox Quotes
To the uninitiated, the Hasidim constitute a rather homogeneous sect of orthodox Jewry, but this is far from being true. — Gad Saad
Those who have truly decided to serve the Lord God should practice the remembrance of God and uninterrupted prayer to Jesus Christ, mentally saying: Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner. — Seraphim of Sarov
Modern Orthodoxy has a highly positive attitude toward the State of Israel. Our Ultra-Orthodox brethren recognize only the Holy Land, but not the state. — Norman Lamm
Cheerfulness consists in not regarding things as our own, but as entrusted to us by God for the benefit of our fellow-servants. It consists in scattering them abroad generously with joy and magnanimity, not reluctantly or under compulsion. — Symeon the New Theologian
...we should realize that there are three sources for our thoughts - God, the devil, and ourselves. — John Cassian
The person who loves God cannot help loving every man as himself, even though he is grieved by the passions of those who are not yet purified. But when they amend their lives, his delight is indescribable and knows no bounds. — Maximus the Confessor
Let no man's place, or dignity, or riches, puff him up; and let no man's low condition or poverty abase him. For the chief points are faith towards God, hope towards Christ, the enjoyment of those good things for which we look, and love towards God and our neighbor. — Ignatius of Antioch
Cleanse your mind from anger, remembrance of evil, and shameful thoughts, and then you will find out how Christ dwells in you. — Maximus the Confessor
Ukraine is a vital link for Europe: our energy transportation networks; our location between the European Union and Eurasia. We're the melting pot of Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity. The democracy we founded with the Orange Revolution has to be an example for other post-Soviet states. — Yulia Tymoshenko
Orthodoxy Quotes
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget. — Aldous Huxley
Now I think that a true liberal will always prioritize individuals over the group, will always prioritize heresy over orthodoxy, will always prioritize the dissenting voice over the status quo. — Maajid Nawaz
The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy. — Juan Williams
Objectivity means nothing more than reflecting the biases and serving the interests of entrenched Washington. Opinions are problematic only when they deviate from the acceptable range of Washington orthodoxy. — Glenn Greenwald
Peer reviewers go for orthodoxy ... Many of the great 19th-century discoveries were made by men who had independent wealth-Charles Darwin is the prototype. They trusted themselves. — James Black
The official keepers of the Holocaust wage an international campaign to silence the disturbing questions. Most people never even hear the revisionist position because Jewish forces dominate the media and block mainstream access to material that questions Holocaust orthodoxy. — David Duke
I am no disbeliever in spiritual purpose and no vague believer. I see from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. This means that for me the meaning of life is centered in our Redemption by Christ and what I see in the world I see in relation to that. — Flannery O'Connor
You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths (orthodoxy) to destroy it. — Mark Twain
Religion Christian Quotes
The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people. — Martin Luther
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. — Billy Sunday
You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense. — Rick Warren
If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified. — Leonard Ravenhill
The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed. — Hudson Taylor
My heart has become capable of every form: It is a pasture for gazelles And a monastery for Christian monks, And the pilgrim's Ka'ba, And the tablets of the Torah, And the book of the Koran. I follow the religion of Love: Whatever way love's camel takes, That is my religion, my faith. — Ibn Arabi
Enter into the promises of God. It is your inheritance. You will do more in one year if you are really filled with the Holy Ghost than you could do in fifty years apart from Him. — Smith Wigglesworth
Before God could bring me to this place He has broken me a thousand times. — Smith Wigglesworth
I continue to dream and pray about a revival of holiness in our day that moves forth in mission and creates authentic community in which each person can be unleashed through the empowerment of the Spirit to fulfill God's creational intentions. — John Wesley
To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. — C. S. Lewis
Christian Theology Quotes
Any theology that is indifferent to the theme of liberation is not Christian theology. — James H. Cone
A missional theology...appl ies to the whole of life of every believer. Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God, and every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture. — Alan Hirsch
What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour. — Walter Martin
To understand a Bible text it takes an act of the Holy Spirit equal to the act that inspired the text in the first place. A revelation of the Holy Spirit in one glorious flash of inward illumination would teach you more of Jesus than five years in a theological seminary. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
No Christian can avoid theology. Every Christian has a theology. The issue, then, is not, dowe want to have a theology? That's a given. The real issue is, do we have a sound theology.? Do we embrace true or false doctrine? — R. C. Sproul
The greatest tragedy in the history of Christianity was neither the Crusades nor the Reformation nor the Inquisition, but rather the split that opened up between theology and spirituality at the end of the Middle Ages. — Hans Urs von Balthasar
The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion. — Thomas Paine
In fact, most of the changes found in early Christian manuscripts have nothing to do with theology or ideology. Far and away the most changes are the result of mistakes pure and simple slips of the pen, accidental omissions, inadvertent additions, misspelled words, blunders of one sort or another. — Bart D. Ehrman
I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen. — Lionel Blue
More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world. — William Barclay
Regard as free not those whose status makes them outwardly free, but those who are free in their character and conduct. For we should not call men truly free when they are wicked and dissolute, since they are slaves to worldly passions. Freedom and happiness of soul consist in genuine purity and detachment from transitory things. — Anthony the Great
Those who seek the Lord should not look for Him outside themselves; on the contrary, they must seek Him within themselves through faith made manifest in action. For He is near you: 'The word is... in your mouth and in your heart, that is, the word of faith' (Rom. 10:8) - Christ being Himself the word that is sought. — Maximus the Confessor
Do not say that faith in Christ alone can save you, for this is not possible if you do not attain love for Him, which is demonstrated by deeds. As for mere faith: "The demons also believe and tremble" (James, 2:19). The action of love consists in heartfelt good deeds toward one's neighbor, magnanimity, patience, and sober use of things. — Maximus the Confessor
Our life and our death is with our neighbor. If we gain our brother, we have gained God, but if we scandalize our brother, we have sinned against Christ. — Anthony the Great
The rule of life for a perfect person is to be in the image and likeness of God. — Clement of Alexandria
...God will be 'all in all' (I Cor. 15:28) when we are no longer what we are now, a multiplicity of impulses and emotions, with little or nothing of God in us, but are fully like God , with room for God and God alone. This is the 'maturity' (cf. Col. 1:28) towards which we speed. — Gregory of Nazianzus
The desire to rule is the mother of heresies. — Saint John Chrysostom
One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian. — Mortimer Adler
A pure heart is perhaps one which has no natural propulsion towards anything in any manner whatsoever. When in its extreme simplicity such a heart has become like a writing-tablet beautifully smoothed and polished, God comes to dwell in it and writes there His own laws. — Maximus the Confessor
Strive with all your might to bring your interior activity into accord with God, and you will overcome exterior passions. — Arsenius the Great
Who is far from love is a bad state, and to be pitied. He passes his days in a delirious dream, far from God, deprived of light, and he lives in darkness ... Whoever does not have the love of Christ is an enemy of Christ. He walks in darkness and is easily lead into any sin. — Ephrem the Syrian
If God suffers in the flesh when He is made man, should we not rejoice when we suffer, for we have God to share our sufferings? This shared suffering confers the kingdom on us. For he spoke truly who said, 'If we suffer with Him, then we shall also be glorified with Him' (Rom. 8:17). — Maximus the Confessor
Don't let your eyes look here and there, and don't look on someone elses' beauty, so that the devil will not conquer you with the help of your eyes. — Ephrem the Syrian
In all of our deeds God looks at the intention, whether we do it for His sake, or for the sake of some other intention. — Maximus the Confessor
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