Wisdom from the Fathers

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• Against our Holy Faith
• Anathema
• Anti-ecumenism
• Orthodox History
• Spiritual Works
• Theology
• Wisdom from the Fathers

I shall sooner agree to die than to apostatize in any way from the true Faith and thereby suffer torments of conscience.

5 months ago trueorthodox

St. Maximos the Confessor

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• Gospel sermons
• Scripture
• Wisdom from the Fathers

This is a hard saying, who can hear it?

5 months ago trueorthodox

by Reader Timothy

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• To Ponder
• Wisdom from the Fathers

Just as the Fishermen Hide the Hook in the Bait 

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-St. Isidore of Pelusium (Letter to Timothy the Reader, PG, 78:252)

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• To Ponder
• True Orthodoxy
• Wisdom from the Fathers

They do not want to examine things and are carried away by phantoms to which the delusion of a depraved heart willingly imparts some probability – St. Theophan the Recluse

5 months ago trueorthodox

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• From the Life of our Church
• Wisdom from the Fathers

Christ is risen!

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Our joyful greeting for the 40 days of Pascha! And a St. Theophan the Recluse quote!

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• New Martyrs
• Saints
• Wisdom from the Fathers

Keep Only These Two Things – St. Kosmas the Aetolian

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• Spiritual Works
• Spirituality
• To Ponder
• Wisdom from the Fathers

Kindling a Confession of Faith

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St. Theodore the Studite

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• To Ponder
• Wisdom from the Fathers

Concerning Satiation by St. Basil the Great

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• Saints
• Spiritual Works
• Spirituality
• Wisdom from the Fathers

The Church is a Dye Shop – St. John Chrysostom

6 months ago trueorthodox

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• Biblical Events
• Scripture
• Spiritual Works
• Wisdom from the Fathers

Do not give in, endure, go forward courageously, saying to yourself: I will not give in even unto death, and I will go bravely wherever the Lord calls me, with the spirit of repentance which now acts in me.

7 months ago trueorthodox