{"id":1897,"date":"2016-04-02T11:18:05","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T15:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nativityofchrist.net\/?page_id=1897"},"modified":"2026-01-26T11:54:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T16:54:44","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nativityofchrist.net\/","title":{"rendered":"Nativity Church Youngstown!"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">Welcome to Nativity of Christ Orthodox Church in Youngstown, Ohio! We are a humble spiritual community dedicated to faithfulness to Orthodox Christianity.\u00a0Located in the heart of Youngstown, we serve the Mahoning Valley, offering a sacred space for worship, fellowship, and growth in faith. Join us for our divine services, explore our rich traditions, and connect with a welcoming congregation rooted in the teachings of Jesus Christ and the traditions of His Orthodox Church.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Saturday Evening Service: 5:00pm<br \/>Sunday Morning Divine Liturgy:10:00am<br \/>See our <a href=\"https:\/\/nativityofchrist.net\/?page_id=8\">calendar<\/a> for additional weekday services.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><div id=\"v-gNBdHFNg-1\" class=\"video-player\"><iframe title='VideoPress Video Player' aria-label='VideoPress Video Player' width='780' height='438' src='https:\/\/videopress.com\/embed\/gNBdHFNg?hd=1&amp;cover=1&amp;loop=0&amp;autoPlay=0&amp;permalink=1&amp;muted=0&amp;controls=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;useAverageColor=0&amp;preloadContent=metadata' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen data-resize-to-parent=\"true\" allow='clipboard-write'><\/iframe><script src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/video\/assets\/js\/next\/videopress-iframe.js'><\/script><\/div><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\">Words of Wisdom<\/h5>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><script language=\"JavaScript\">\r\n\/\/ ==============================================\r\n\/\/ Copyright 2004 by CodeLifter.com\r\n\/\/ Free for all; but please leave in this header.\r\n\/\/ ==============================================\r\n\r\nvar Quotation=new Array() \/\/ do not change this!\r\n\r\n\/\/ Set up the quotations to be shown, below.\r\n\/\/ To add more quotations, continue with the\r\n\/\/ pattern, adding to the array.  Remember\r\n\/\/ to increment the Quotation[x] index!\r\n\r\nQuotation[0] = \"\\\"You ask, will the heterodox be saved. Why do you worry about them? They have a Saviour, Who desires the salvation of every human being. He will take care of them. You and I should not be burdened with such concern. Study yourself and your own sins. I will tell you one thing, however, should you being Orthodox, and possessing the Truth in its fullness, betray Orthodoxy and enter a different faith, you will lose your soul forever.\\\" <br><br>--- St. Theophan the Recluse\";\r\nQuotation[1] = \"\\\"If you want, or rather intend, to take a splinter out of another person, then do not hack at it with a stick instead of a lancet, for you will only drive it in deeper. And this is a stick \u2013 rude speech and rough gestures. And this is a lancet \u2013 tempered instruction and patient reprimand. \u201cReprove,\u201d says the Apostle, \\\u201crebuke, exhort,\\\u201d but he did not say \\\u201cbeat.\\\u201d (II Timothy 4:2) And if even this is required, do it rarely, and not with your own hand.\\\" <br><br>--- St John Climacus\";\r\nQuotation[2] = \"...people feel in their souls when they are doing the proper thing, believing in Jesus Christ, revering the Mother of God and the Saints, whom they call upon in prayer, so if you condemn their faith they will not listen to you...But if you were to confirm that they were doing well to believe in God and honor the Mother of God and the Saints; that they are right to go to church, and say their prayers at home, read the Divine word, and so on; and then gently point out their mistakes and show them what they ought to amend, then they would listen to you, and the Lord would rejoice over them. And this way by Gods mercy we shall all find salvation...God is love, and therefore the preaching of His word must always proceed from love. Then both preacher and listener will profit. But if you do nothing but condemn, the soul of the people will not heed you, and no good will come of it.<br><br>St. Siloan the Anthonite on the Heterodox\/Schismatics\";\r\nQuotation[3] = \"Many of those who on earth considered themselves to be alien to the Church will find that on the day of Judgment that they are her citizen; and many of those who thought themselves to be members of the Church will, alas, be found to be alien to her.<br><br>St. Augustine\";\r\nQuotation[4] = \"You greatly delude yourself and err, if you think that one thing is demanded from the layman and another from the monk...what has turned the world upside down is that we think only the monk must live rigorously, while the rest are allowed to live a life of indolence <br><br> St. John Chrysostom.\";\r\nQuotation[5] = \"Acquire the Spirit of Peace and a thousand souls around you will be saved. <br><br>St. Seraphim of Sarov\";\r\nQuotation[6] = \"For one to reach God, he must travel roads that are difficult and hard.<br><br>Abba Isaiah\";\r\nQuotation[7] = \"Why do you increase your bonds? Take hold of your life before your light grows dark and you seek help and do not find it. This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits.<br><br>St Isaac of Syria\";\r\nQuotation[8] = \"Where the Saviour is named, there every demon is driven out. Again, who has ever so rid men of their natural passions that fornicators become chaste and murderers no longer wield the sword and those who formerly were craven cowards boldly play the man? In a word, what persuaded the barbarians and heathen folk in every place to drop their madness and give heed to peace, save the faith of Christ and the sign of the cross? What other things have given men such certain faith in immortality as have the cross of Christ and the resurrection of His body?<br><br>St Athanasius the Great, On the Incarnation\";\r\nQuotation[9] = \"Constant pondering on the Holy Scriptures will always fill the soul with incomprehensible wonder and joy in God.<br><br>St. Isaac of Syria\";\r\nQuotation[10] = \"True wealth, for me, is to see you in the Kingdom of Heaven.<br><br>Father Amphilochios\";\r\nQuotation[11] = \"The advent of the Lord will appear superfluous and useless, if He did indeed come intending to tolerate and to preserve each man's idea regarding God, as it was rooted in him from of old.<br><br>St. Irenaeus of Lyons\";\r\nQuotation[12] = \"We however, take into our believing hearts and mouths the Mediator between God and man, the man Jesus Christ with His flesh given us to eat and His blood given us to drink.<br><br>St. Augustine of Hippo\";\r\nQuotation[13] = \"In Christianity truth is not a philosophical concept nor is it a theory, a teaching, or a system, but rather, it is the living theanthropic hypostasis - the historical Jesus Christ (John 14:6). Before Christ men could only conjecture about the Truth since they did not possess it. With Christ as the incarnate divine Logos the eternally complete divine Truth enters into the world. For this reason the Gospel says: \\\"Truth came by Jesus Christ\\\" (John 1:17).<br><br> St Justin Popovich\";\r\nQuotation[14] = \"Those who seek humility should bear in mind the three following things: that they are the worst of sinners, that they are the most despicable of all creatures since their state is an unnatural one, and that they are even more pitiable than the demons, since they are slaves to the demons. You will also profit if you say this to yourself: how do I know what or how many other people's sins are, or whether they are greater than or equal to my own? In our ignorance you and I , my soul, are worse than all men, we are dust and ashes under their feet.<br><br>St Gregory of Sinai\";\r\nQuotation[15] = \"Love sinners, but reject their deeds. Do not despise them because of their failings, lest you too find yourself tempted in the very same way. Remember that you too share in the stink of Adam, and that you too are clothed in his weakness.<br><br>St Isaac of Syria\";\r\nQuotation[16] = \"Both the Emperor\u2019s commands and yours [a person in authority] must be obeyed if they are not contrary to the God of heaven. If they are, they must not only not be obeyed; they must be resisted.<br><br>St. Euphemia, d. 303\";\r\nQuotation[17] = \"The Son of God became the Son of Man in order that the sons of men, the sons of Adam, might be made sons of God. The Word, who was begotten of the Father in heaven in an ineffable, inexplicable, incomprehensible and eternal manner, came to this earth to be born in time of the Virgin Mary, Mother of God, in order that they who were born of earth might be born again of God, in heaven. ... He has bestowed upon us the first-fruits of the Holy Spirit, so that we may all become sons of God in imitation of the Son of God. Thus He, the true natural Son of God bears us all in Himself, so that we may all bear in ourselves the only God.<br><br>St. Athanasius\";\r\nQuotation[18] = \"I cannot persuade myself that without love to others, and without, as far as rests with me, peaceableness towards all, I can be called a worthy servant of Jesus Christ. <br><br>St Basil the Great, Letter 203\";\r\nQuotation[19] = \"Conquer evil men by your gentle kindness, and make zealous men wonder at your goodness. Put the lover of legality to shame by your compassion. With the afflicted be afflicted in mind. Love all men, but keep distant from all men.<br><br>St Isaac of Syria\";\r\nQuotation[20] = \"In former times God, who is without form or body, could never be depicted. But now when God is seen in the flesh conversing with men, I make an image of the God whom I see. I do not worship matter; I worship the Creator of matter who became matter for my sake, who willed to take His abode in matter; who worked out my salvation through matter. Never will I cease honouring the matter which wrought my salvation!<br><br>St John of Damascus\";\r\nQuotation[21] = \"If you are praised, be silent. If you are scolded, be silent. If you incur losses, be silent. If you receive profit, be silent. If you are satiated, be silent. If you are hungry, also be silent. And do not be afraid that there will be no fruit when all dies down; there will be! Not everything will die down. Energy will appear; and what energy!<br><br>St Feofil the Fool for Christ\";\r\nQuotation[22] = \"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.<br><br>St John Chrysostom\";\r\nQuotation[23] = \"Our Lord instructed us to pray in secret - this means, in our heart - and also to 'shut the door'. What is this door he says we must shut, if not the mouth? For we are the temple in which Christ dwells, for so the Apostle said, 'You are temples of the Lord' (1 Cor 3.16). The Lord enters into your inner self, into this house, to cleanse it from everything that is unclean; but only when the door, that is your mouth, is closed shut.<br><br>Aphrahat the Persian\";\r\nQuotation[24] = \"If we want to set our lives aright and find peace, it is not the tolerant attitude of others that will do it for us. It will come about, rather, by our learning how to show them compassion. If we try to avoid this hard struggle of compassion by preferring a withdrawn and solitary life, we will simply drag our unhealed obsessions into solitude with us. We might well have hidden them; we certainly will not have eliminated them. If we do not seek liberation from our obsessions, then becoming more withdrawn and less social may even make us more blind to them, since it can mask them.<br><br>St John Cassian\";\r\nQuotation[25] = \"How lovely is prayer and how radiant are its works. Prayer is acceptable to God when it is accompanied by good deeds, and it is heard when it rises out of a spirit of forgiveness. Prayer is always answered when it is pure and sincere. Prayer is powerful when it is suffused with God's vigour.<br><br>Aphrahat the Persian\";\r\nQuotation[26] = \"Do not be surprised if you fall back into your old ways every day. Do not be disheartened, but resolve to do something positive about it; and, without question, the angel who stands guard over you will honour your perseverance.<br><br>St John Klimakos\";\r\nQuotation[27] = \"When a ray of sunlight enters the house through a crack, it lights up everything inside and even shows up the finest dust in its beam. So it is with the fear of the Lord when it enters a human heart. It reveals all the fallibility still lurking there.<br><br>St John Klimakos\";\r\nQuotation[28] = \"It is more important to remember God than it is to remember to breathe.<br><br>St Gregory of Nazianzus\";\r\nQuotation[29] = \"Not every person is able to achieve the highest state of transcendent soul; but it is certainly possible for everyone to find reconciliation with God, and it is this that will save them. <br><br>St John Klimakos\";\r\nQuotation[30] = \"When you intend to know God do not seek the reasons about His being, for the human mind and that of any other being after God cannot discover this. Rather, consider as you can the things about Him, for example His eternity, immensity, infinity, His goodness, wisdom and power which creates, governs and judges creatures. For that person among others is a great theologian if he searches out the principles of these things, however much or little.<br><br>St Maximus the Confessor\";\r\nQuotation[31] = \"Therefore be eager for more frequent gatherings for the thanksgiving [eucharist] to God and for His glory. For when you meet frequently the forces of Satan are annulled and his destructive power is cancelled in the concord of your faith. There is nothing better than peace, in which all hostility is abolished, whether it comes from the powers of heaven or the powers of earth.<br><br>St Ignatius of Antioch\";\r\nQuotation[32] = \"All who belong to God and Jesus Christ are with the bishop; and all who repent [of schism] and come into the unity of the Church will also belong to God, that they may be living according to Jesus Christ. Make no mistake, my brothers. If anyone follows a man who causes a schism, he 'does not inherit the Kingdom of God'. And any man who goes in for strange doctrine disassociates himself from the Passion.<br><br>St Ignatius of Antioch\";\r\nQuotation[33] = \"Let them say where the newborn child committed fornication, or how that can have fallen under Adam's curse which has not yet performed any action. They should logically go on to say that not only the birth of the body is evil but also that of the soul on which the body depends. When David says, 'I was conceived in sins, and in lawlessness my mother bore me', he refers prophetically to Eve as his mother. But Eve was 'the mother of all living', and if he was conceived in sin in this sense, still he is not himself in sin nor is he himself sin.<br><br>St Clement of Alexandria\";\r\nQuotation[34] = \"To die to one's neighbor is this: To bear your own faults and not to pay attention to anyone else wondering whether they are good or bad. ... Do not think anything bad in your heart towards anyone, do not scorn the man who does evil, do not put confidence in him who does wrong to his neighbor, do not rejoice with him who injures his neighbor. This is what dying to one's neighbor means.<br><br>Abba Moses\";\r\nQuotation[35] = \"The holy Fathers were making predictions about the last generation. They said, 'What have we ourselves done?' One of them, the great Abba Ischyrion replied, 'We ourselves have fulfilled the commandments of God'. The others replied, 'And those who come after us, what will they do?' He said, 'They will struggle to achieve half our works'. They said, 'And to those who come after them, what will happen?' He said, 'The men of that generation will not accomplish any works at all and temptation will come upon them; and those who will be approved in that day will be greater than either us or our fathers.'<br><br>- Abba Ischyrion\";\r\nQuotation[36] = \"The evil one cannot comprehend the joy we receive from the spiritual life; for this reason he is jealous of us, he envies us and sets traps for us, and we become grieved and fall. We must struggle, because without struggles we do not obtain virtues.<br><br>Elder Ieronymos of Aegina\";\r\nQuotation[37] = \"Remember, O my soul, the terrible and frightful wonder: that your Creator for your sake became Man, and deigned to suffer for the sake of your salvation. His angels tremble, the Cherubim are terrified, the Seraphim are in fear, and all the heavenly powers ceaselessly give praise; and you, unfortunate soul, remain in laziness. At least from this time forth arise and do not put off, my beloved soul, holy repentence, contrition of heart and penance for your sins.<br><br>St. Paisius Velichkovsky\";\r\nQuotation[38] = \"God is a fire that warms and kindles the heart and inward parts. Hence, if we feel in our hearts the cold which comes from the devil - for the devil is cold - let us call on the Lord. He will come to warm our hearts with perfect love, not only for Him but also for our neighbor, and the cold of him who hates the good will flee before the heat of His countenance.<br><br>St. Seraphim of Sarov\";\r\nQuotation[39] = \"The man who endures accusations against himself with humility has arrived at perfection. He is marveled at by the holy angels, for there is no other virtue so great and so hard to achieve.<br><br>St Isaac of Syria\";\r\nQuotation[40] = \"Be persecuted, but persecute not; be crucified, but crucify not; be wronged, but wrong not; be slandered, but slander not. Have clemency, not zeal, with respect to evil. Lay hold of goodness, not legality.<br><br>St. Isaac of Syria\";\r\nQuotation[41] = \"If you cannot be merciful, at least speak as though you are a sinner. If you are not a peacemaker, at least do not be a troublemaker. If you cannot be assiduous, at least in your thought be unlike a sluggard. If you are not victorious, do not exalt yourself over the vanquished. If you cannot close the mouth of a man who disparages his companion, at least refrain from joining him in this.<br><br>St. Isaac of Syria\";\r\nQuotation[42] = \"When Abba Antony thought about the depth of the judgments of God, he asked, 'Lord, how is it that some die when they are young, while others drag on to extreme old age? Why are there those who are poor and those who are rich? Why do wicked men prosper and why are the just in need?' He heard a voice answering him, 'Antony, keep your attention on yourself; these things are according to the judgment of God, and it is not to your advantage to know anything about them.'<br><br>St Antony the Great\";\r\nQuotation[43] = \"Whatever helps us to achieve purity of heart, we must follow with all our might; whatever hinders us from it, we must shun as a dangerous and hurtful thing.<br><br>Abba Moses\";\r\nQuotation[44] = \"Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like?<br><br>St John Chrysostom\";\r\nQuotation[45] = \"A brother who followed the life of stillness in the monastery of the cave of Abba Saba came to Abba Elias and said to him, 'Abba, give me a way of life.' The old man said to the brother, 'In the days of our predecessors they took great care about these three virtues: poverty, obedience, and fasting. But among monks nowadays avarice, self-confidence and great greed have taken charge. Choose whichever you want most.'<br><br>Sayings of the Desert Fathers\";\r\nQuotation[46] = \"Fasts and vigils, the study of Scripture, renouncing possessions and everything worldly are not in themselves perfection, as we have said; they are its tools. For perfection is not to be found in them; it is acquired through them. It is useless, therefore, to boast of our fasting, vigils, poverty, and reading of Scripture when we have not achieved the love of God and our fellow men. Whoever has achieved love has God within himself and his intellect is always with God.<br><br>St John Cassian\";\r\nQuotation[47] = \"Do all in your power not to fall, for the strong athlete should not fall. But if you do fall, get up again at once and continue the contest. Even if you fall a thousand times because of the withdrawal of God's grace, rise up again each time, and keep on doing so until the day of your death. For it is written, 'If a righteous man falls seven times' -that is, repeatedly throughout his life- seven times 'shall he rise again' (Prov 24.16 LXX).<br><br>St John of Karpathos\";\r\nQuotation[48] = \"Fire makes iron impossible to touch, and likewise frequent prayer renders the intellect more forceful in its warfare against the enemy. That is why the demons strive with all their strength to make us slothful in attentiveness to prayer, for they know that prayer is the intellect's invincible weapon against them.<br><br>St John of Karpathos\";\r\nQuotation[49] = \"Therefore Christ passed through every age, and among infants was an infant, sanctifying infants; among children was a child, sanctifying those who have this age and likewise becoming for them a model of piety and justice and submission; and among young men a young man, becoming a model to young men and sanctifying them for the Lord. Thus also he was an elder among elders, in order to be a perfect master in all, not only in His interpretation of the truth but also in his age, at the same time sanctifying the elders and becoming a model for them. Finally he came even to death, that he might be 'Firstborn from the dead, holding the primacy in all things' (Col 1.18).<br><br>St Irenaeus of Lyons\";\r\nQuotation[50] = \"A person full of anxiety about worldly things is not free: he is dominated and enslaved by this anxiety, whether it is about himself or about others. But he who is free from such things is untroubled by worldly concerns, whether they relate to himself or to others; and this is so, even if he is a bishop, abbot or priest. However, he will not be idle, or neglect even the most insignificant and trivial details; but all he does he will do for the glory of God, accomplishing everything in his life without anxiety.<br><br>St Symeon the New Theologian\";\r\nQuotation[51] = \"If we want to ask a favor of any person of power, we presume not to approach but with humility and respect. How much more ought we to address ourselves to the Lord and God of all things with a humble and entire devotion? We are not to imagine that our prayers shall be heard because we use many words, but because the heart is pure and the spirit penitent. Therefore prayer must be short and pure, unless it be prolonged by a feeling of divine inspiration. Prayer in common ought always to be short, and when the sign is given by the abbot, all should rise together.<br><br>St. Benedict of Nursia\";\r\nQuotation[52] = \"Pious exercises nourish the soul with divine thoughts. What state can be more blessed than to imitate on earth the choruses of angels? To begin the day with prayer, and honor our Maker with hymns and songs? As the day brightens, to betake ourselves, with prayer attending on it throughout, to our labors, and to sweeten our work with hymns, as if with salt? Soothing hymns compose the mind to a cheerful and calm state.<br><br>St Basil the Great\";\r\nQuotation[53] = \"The ladder to the Kingdom is hidden within you, within your soul. Dive down into your self, away from sin, and there you will find the steps by which you can ascend.<br><br>St Isaac of Syria\";\r\nQuotation[54] = \"Do not test out your mind on the grounds that you are examining what seductive and impure thoughts look like, imagining that, as you do this, you will not be overcome by them. Even the wise have in this way been thrown into confusion and become infatuated.<br><br>St Isaac of Syria\";\r\nQuotation[55] = \"If God is slow in answering your request, or if you ask but do not promptly receive anything, do not be upset, for you are not wiser than God.<br><br>St Isaac of Syria\";\r\nQuotation[56] = \"When the Evil One sees a person commence on some virtuous action with great fervor of faith, he has the habit of placing grievous temptations in that person's path, in order to frighten him away from this course of action.<br><br>St Isaac of Syria\";\r\nQuotation[57] = \"Just as it is only after labor that a pregnant woman gives birth to the fruit that gives joy, so it is with the soul: only after labours is knowledge of the mysteries of God given birth in it.<br><br>St Isaac of Syria\";\r\nQuotation[58] = \"The intellect will not be glorified with Jesus unless the body suffers for the sake of Jesus.<br><br>St Isaac of Syria\";\r\nQuotation[59] = \"Even if you do not possess a pure heart, at least let your speech be pure.<br><br>St Isaac of Syria\";\r\nQuotation[60] = \"The heretics are proved to be disciples not of the Apostles, but of their own wicked notions. To this cause also are due the various opinions that exist among them, inasmuch as each one adopts error in whatever manner it presents itself to him. But the Church throughout all the world, having its origin firm from the Apostles, perseveres in one and the same opinion with regard to God and His Son.<br><br>St. Irenaeus of Lyons\";\r\nQuotation[61] = \"Those who deliberately refuse to repent sin continually; those who sin without meaning to not only repent with all their heart, but also do not often have cause to repent.<br><br>Ilias the Presbyter\";\r\nQuotation[62] = \"The purpose of spiritual reading is to keep the intellect from distraction and restlessness, for this is the first step towards salvation.<br><br>Ilias the Presbyter\";\r\nQuotation[63] = \"Baptism is the end of the Old Testament and the beginning of the New. For John was the precursor, and there was no one greater among those born of women. He was the end of the prophets, for all the prophets and the law lasted up to John. He was also the beginning of the age of the gospels.<br><br>Cyril of Jerusalem\";\r\nQuotation[64] = \"We must not out of laziness frequently change the words of the invocation of our prayer, but only do this rarely, so as to ensure continuity.<br><br>St Gregory of Sinai\";\r\nQuotation[65] = \"I have learnt to know one who proves that even in a soldier\u2019s life it is possible to preserve the perfection of love to God, and that we must mark a Christian not by the style of his dress, but by the disposition of his soul.<br><br>St Basil the Great, Letter 106\";\r\nQuotation[66] = \"Let us charge into the good fight with joy and love without being afraid of our enemies. Though unseen themselves, they can look at the face of our soul, and if they see it altered by fear, they take up arms against us all the more fiercely. For the cunning creatures have observed that we are scared. So let us take up arms against them courageously. No one will fight with a resolute fighter.<br><br>St John Klimakos\";\r\nQuotation[67] = \"God descends to the humble as waters flow down from the hills into the valleys.<br><br>St Tikhon of Voronezh\";\r\nQuotation[68] = \"Even if an angel should indeed appear to you, do not receive him but humiliate yourself, saying, 'I am not worthy to see an angel, for I am a sinner.'<br><br>From the Sayings of the Desert Fathers\";\r\nQuotation[69] = \"What toil we must endure, what fatigue, while we are attempting to climb hills and the summits of mountains! What, that we may ascend to heaven! If you consider the promised reward, what you endure is less. Immortality is given to the one who perseveres; everlasting life is offered; the Lord promises His Kingdom.<br><br>St Cyprian of Carthage\";\r\nQuotation[70] = \"The way of humility is this: self-control, prayer, and thinking yourself inferior to all creatures.<br><br>Abba Tithoes\";\r\nQuotation[71] = \"The body is a slave, the soul a sovereign, and therefore it is due to Divine mercy when the body is worn out by illness: for thereby the passions are weakened, and a man comes to himself; indeed, bodily illness itself is sometimes caused by the passions.<br><br>St Seraphim of Sarov, Spiritual Instructions\";\r\nQuotation[72] = \"Oh, what great happiness and bliss, what exaltation it is to address oneself to the Eternal Father. Always, without fail, value this joy which has been accorded to you by God's infinite grace and do not forget it during your prayers; God, the angels and God's holy men listen to you.<br><br>St John of Kronstadt\";\r\nQuotation[73] = \"What we need is a little labor! Let us endure this labor that we may obtain mercy.<br><br>St Dorotheos of Gaza\";\r\nQuotation[74] = \"The knowledge of the Cross is concealed in the sufferings of the Cross.<br><br>St Isaac the Syrian\";\r\nQuotation[75] = \"The Seraph could not touch the fire's coal with his fingers, but just brought it close to Isaiah's mouth: the Seraph did not hold it, Isaiah did not consume it, but us our Lord has allowed to do both.<br><br>St Ephrem the Syrian\";\r\nQuotation[76] = \"When you pray to God in time of temptation do not say, 'Take this or that away from me', but pray like this: 'O Jesus Christ, sovereign Master, help me and do not let me sin against Thee. . .'<br><br>Abba Isaiah the Solitary\";\r\nQuotation[77] = \"When a man walks in the fear of God he knows no fear, even if he were to be surrounded by wicked men. He has the fear of God within him and wears the invincible armour of faith. This makes him strong and able to take on anything, even things which seem difficult or impossible to most people. Such a man is like a giant surrounded by monkeys, or a roaring lion among dogs and foxes. He goes forward trusting in the Lord and the constancy of his will to strike and paralyse his foes. He wields the blazing club of the Word in wisdom.<br><br>Symeon the New Theologian\";\r\nQuotation[78] = \"Every day you provide your bodies with good to keep them from failing. In the same way your good works should be the daily nourishment of your hearts. Your bodies are fed with food and your spirits with good works. You aren't to deny your soul, which is going to live forever, what you grant to your body, which is going to die.<br><br>St Gregory the Great\";\r\nQuotation[79] = \"Let us fear the Lord not less than we fear beasts. For I have seen men who were going to steal and were not afraid of God, but, hearing the barking of dogs, they at once turned back; and what the fear of God could not achieve was done by the fear of animals.<br><br>St John Klimakos\";\r\nQuotation[80] = \"No one can take God as his Father unless he takes the Church as his mother.<br><br>St. Cyprian\";\r\nQuotation[81] = \"Eve is called Mother of the human race, but Mary, Mother of Salvation.<br><br>St. Ambrose of Milan\";\r\nQuotation[82] = \"Justice was above the world when the devil offered all the kingdoms of the world and all its glory. He was above the world Who touched nothing concerning the world, Who said: The prince of this world is coming, but in Me he shall find nothing. Learn, therefore, to be above the world even while in this world, and if you bear a body, may your interior wings soar up. He is above the world who bears God in his body.<br><br>St Ambrose of Milan\";\r\nQuotation[83] = \"I do not propose to have a single question raised on the subject of sin in regard to the Holy Virgin Mary, out of respect for the Lord.<br><br> St Augustine of Hippo\";\r\nQuotation[84] = \"Of the dogmas and messages preserved in the Church, some we possess from written teaching and others we receive from the tradition of the apostles, handed on to us in mystery. In respect to piety both are of the same force. No one will contradict any of these, no one, at any rate, who is even moderately versed in matters ecclesiastical. Indeed, were we to try to reject unwritten customs as having no great authority, we would unwittingly injure the gospel in its vitals; or rather, we would reduce [Christian] message to a mere term.<br><br>St Basil the Great\";\r\nQuotation[85] = \"Those who wish to live virtuously should not hanker after praise, be involved with too many people, keep going out, or abuse others (however much they deserve it), or talk excessively, even if they can speak well on every subject.<br><br>Diadochus of Photiki\";\r\nQuotation[86] = \"Through the fall our nature was stripped of divine illumination and resplendence. But the Logos of God had pity upon our disfigurement and in His compassion He took our nature upon Himself, and on Tabor He manifested it to His elect disciples clothed once again most brilliantly. He shows what we once were and what we shall become through Him in the age to come, if we choose to live our present life as far as possible in accordance with His ways.<br><br>St Gregory Palamas\";\r\nQuotation[87] = \"What is this new mystery which concerns me? I am small and great, lowly and exalted, mortal and immortal, earthly and heavenly. I share one condition with the lower world, the other with God; one with the flesh, the other with the spirit. I must be buried with Christ, arise with Christ, be joint heir with Christ, become the son of God, yea, God Himself.<br><br>St Gregory of Nazianzus, Oration 7.23\";\r\nQuotation[88] = \"There is no better teacher than death. Have death before your minds: the time when you will leave this unreal world and will go to the other one, which is eternal.<br><br>St Kosmas Aetolos\";\r\nQuotation[89] = \"Thoughts are like airplanes flying in the air. If you ignore them, there is no problem. If you pay attention to them, you create an airport inside your head and permit them to land.<br><br>Elder Paisios of Mt Athos\";\r\nQuotation[90] = \"Freedom is good when the person can use it appropriately. Otherwise it is a disaster.<br><br>- Elder Paisios of Mount Athos\";\r\nQuotation[91] = \"All men are made in God's image; but to be in His likeness is granted only to those who through great love have brought their own freedom into subjection to God. For only when we do not belong to ourselves do we become like Him who through love has reconciled us to Himself. <br><br>St Diadochus Photike\";\r\nQuotation[92] = \"Silence of lips is better and more wonderful than any edifying conversation. Strive to acquire humility and submissiveness. Never insist that anything should be according to your will, for this gives birth to anger. Do not judge or humiliate anyone, for this gives birth to anger. Do not judge or humiliate anyone, for this exhausts the heart and blinds the mind, and thereon leads to negligence and makes the heart unfeeling.<br><br>St Barsanuphius and St John\";\r\nQuotation[93] = \"Don't pressure your children. In your prayers say the thing you want to tell them. Children don't listen through their ears, but only when divine grace comes to enlighten them. When you want to say something to your children, tell it to Panagia and she will bring it to pass. This prayer of yours will be like a spiritual caress which will embrace your children and will grab their attention. Sometimes we try to caress them and they react against it, but they never react against the spiritual caress.<br><br>Elder Porphyrios\";\r\nQuotation[94] = \"Everybody has the ability to fast, pray and give alms. There is no can or can not, but a want to or not.<br><br>St Basil of Poiana Marului\";\r\nQuotation[95] = \"Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.<br><br>Saint Augustine\"; \r\nQuotation[96] = \"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.<br><br>Saint Augustine\";\r\nQuotation[97] = \"He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.<br><br>Saint Augustine\"; \r\nQuotation[98] = \"If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.<br><br>Saint Augustine\"; \r\nQuotation[99] = \"It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.<br><br>Saint Augustine\"; \r\nQuotation[100] = \"The purpose of all wars, is peace.<br><br>Saint Augustine\";\r\nQuotation[101] = \"Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in thee.<br><br>Saint Augustine\"; \r\nQuotation[102] = \"Charity is no substitute for justice.<br><br>Saint Augustine\"; \r\nQuotation[103] = \"Unfortunately, in our time, when spheres of knowledge have greatly multiplied, logic has shaken the very foundations of people's faith, and has filled their hearts with questions and doubts. As a consequence, they have been deprived of miracles, for a miracle is something experienced personally, not something than can be logically explained.<br><br>Elder Paisios\";\r\nQuotation[104] = \"Worldly people do not want there to be garbage and filth in their yards, and therefore they sweep and tidy up their yards until everything is spotless. They take the garbage they have collected into the house, so that it cannot be seen from the yard. That's how worldly people behave: the garbage can be left inside, but not outside, because if it is outside, others can see it. In contrast to that, spiritual people clean out the house and throw out the garbage, without a care for what others will say.<br><br>Elder Paisios\";\r\nQuotation[105] = \"In the same measure that people give themselves over to luxury and distance themselves from simple, natural life, they multiply their fears about tomorrow. In the same measure that worldly politeness develops, simplicity, joy, and the natural human smile are lost.<br><br>Elder Paisios\";\r\nQuotation[106] = \"Live simply and without thinking too much, like a child with his father. Faith without too much thinking works wonders. The logical mind hinders the Grace of God and miracles. Practice patience without judging with the logical mind.<br><br>Elder Paisios of Mount Athos\";\r\nQuotation[107] = \"In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers . . . we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.<br><br>Alexander Solzehnitsyn\";\r\nQuotation[108] = \"Theology without action is the theology of demons.<br><br>St. Maximos the Confessor\";\r\nQuotation[109] = \"Someone who has actually tasted truth is not contentious for truth.<br><br>Someone who is considered among men to be zealous for truth has not yet learnt what truth is really like: once he has truly learnt it, he will cease from zealousness on its behalf.<br><br>The gift of God and of knowledge of Him is not a cause for turmoil and clamour; rather this gift is entirely filled with a peace in which the Spirit, love and humility reside.<br><br>The following is a sign of the coming of the Spirit: the person whom the Spirit has overshadowed is made perfect in these very virtues.<br><br>God is reality. The person whose mind has become aware of God does not even possess a tongue with which to speak, but God resides in his heart in great serenity. He experiences no stirring of zeal or argumentativeness, nor is he stirred by anger. He cannot even be aroused concerning the faith.<br><br>St. Isaac of Syria\";\r\nQuotation[110] = \"Always look to Heaven, and measure every step of your life so that it is a step towards it. It seems to me that it is so simple and at the same time comprehensive.<br><br>You ask, 'Shouldn't I be doing something?' Of course that is necessary. Do whatever falls to your hands, in your circle and in you situation--and believe that this is and will be your TRUE work; nothing more from you is required. IT IS A GREAT ERROR TO THINK THAT YOU MUST UNDERTAKE IMPORTANT AND GREAT LABORS, whether for heaven, or, as the \\\"progressives\\\" think, in order to make one's contribution to humanity. That is not necessary at all. It is necessary only to do everything in accordance with the Lord's commandments. Just exactly what is to be done? Nothing in particular, just that which presents itself to each one according to the circumstances of his or her life, and which is demanded by the individual events with which each of us meets. THAT IS ALL! God arranges the lot of each person, and the entire course of life of each one is all His all-good industry, as is each moment and each meeting. In all instances, and during each meeting, it is necessary to do what God wants us to do. As to what He wants, we certainly know that from the commandments He has given us. Is someone seeking help? Help him . Has someone offended you? Forgive and make peace. Did somebody praise you? Don't be proud. Did somebody scold you? Do not be angry. Is it time to pray? Pray. Is it time to work? Work. Etc., etc., etc.<br><br>If, after all of this has been explained, you set about to act in this way in every instance, so that your works will be pleasing to God, having carried them out according to the commandments without any deviation, then all the problems of your life will be solved completely and satisfactorily.'<br><br>St Theophan The Recluse\";\r\nQuotation[111] = \"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.<br><br>G.K. Chesterton\";\r\nQuotation[112] = \"If Christ is risen, then nothing else matters. If Christ is not risen, then nothing else matters.<br><br>Jaroslav Pelikan\";\r\nQuotation[113] = \"Everything is beautiful in a person when he turns toward God, and everything is ugly when is is turned away from God.<br><br>Fr. Pavel Florensky\";\r\nQuotation[114] = \"Those who are grateful towards God for everything and constantly attend to themselves humbly and look after God's creatures and creation with kindness, theologize and thus become the most faithful theologians, even if illiterate. They are like the illiterate shepherds who observe the weather in the countryside, day and night, and become good meteorologists.<br><br>Elder Paisios\";\r\nQuotation[115] = \"I have often regretted the words I have spoken, but I have never regretted my silence.<br><br>St. Arsenius\";\r\nQuotation[116] = \"Monastic Rule of Three.<br><br>1. Always tell the truth.<br>2. Never say anything more than what is required.<br>3. Whenever you speak, speak with kindness.<br><br>Teaching of St. John Maximovich\";\r\nQuotation[117] = \"Prayer, fasting, vigils, and all other Christian practices, however good they may be in themselves, certainly do not constitute the aim of our Christian life: they are but the indispensable means of attaining that aim. For the true aim of the Christian life is the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. As for fasts, vigils, prayer and almsgiving, and other good works done in the name of Christ, they are only the means of acquiring the Holy Spirit of God. Note well that it is only good works done in the name of Christ that bring us the fruits of the Spirit.<br><br>St. Seraphim of Sarov\";\r\nQuotation[117] = \"When you read the Gospels Christ speaks to you; when you pray, you are speaking to Him\u2026 The Bible should be read not just for analysis, but as an immediate dialogue with the living Word Himself \u2013 to feed our love for Christ, to kindle our hearts with prayer and to provide us with guidance in our personal life.<br><br>St. Tikhon of Zadonsk\";\r\nQuotation[118] = \"There is an electric generator and in the room there is a lamp. If, however, we don\u2019t flip the switch, we will remain in darkness. Similarly, there is Christ and there is our soul. If, however, we don\u2019t flip the switch of prayer, our soul will not see the light of Christ and will remain in the darkness of the devil.<br><br>Elder Porphyrios, +1991\";\r\nQuotation[119] = \"Loving one's enemies does not mean loving wickedness, ungodliness, adultery, or theft. Rather, it means loving the thief, the ungodly, and the adulterer. <br><br>Clement of Alexandria 195 A.D.\";\r\nQuotation[120] = \"In this world, you must walk the paths of God's commandments, be merciful to one another; in your behavior and actions try to be like monks\u2014even though you live in this stormy sea of life. Then God's mercy will not leave you.<br><br>Fr. Arseny (Andreyevitch)\";\r\nQuotation[121] = \"I find more meaning in the wing of a bird and in the branch of a tree, than in five hundred icons.  God has given us two books: the Bible and Creation. <br><br> Father Alexander Men of Blessed Memory\";\r\nQuotation[121] = \"How much our American Orthodoxy needs MORE HEART and not so much mind! I don't know any answer for it, except MORE PRAYER and basic education in ORTHODOX SOURCES.<br><br>Blessed Hieromonk Seraphim Rose, 'Letters'\";\r\nQuotation[122] = \"It is self evident, however, that sincere Christians who are Roman Catholics, or Lutherans, or members, of other non-Orthodox confessions, cannot be termed renegades or heretics\u2014i.e. those who knowingly pervert the truth... They have been born and raised and are living according to the creed which they have inherited, just as do the majority of you who are Orthodox; in their lives there has not been a moment of personal and conscious renunciation of Orthodoxy. The Lord, 'Who will have all men to be saved' (I Tim. 2:4) and 'Who enlightens every man born into the world' (Jn. 1.43), undoubtedly is leading them also towards salvation In His own way.'<br.><br> Metropolitan Philaret on the faith of other confessions\"; \r\nQuotation[123] = \"The greatest sickness of our age is the vain thoughts of secular people, which bring stress. 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