Christianity has from its beginning portrayed itself as a gospel of peace, a way of reconciliation (with God, with other creatures), and a new model of human community, offering the 'peace which passes understanding' to a world enmeshed in sin and violence. (1)
David Bentley HartTags: christianity aesthetics eastern-orthodoxy
Love is sacrifice. Love sacrifices itself for its neighbor.
Thaddeus of VitovnicaTags: inspirational love christianity spirituality sacrifice neighbor eastern-orthodoxy
Everything is defeated before love.
Thaddeus of VitovnicaTags: inspirational love christianity spirituality eastern-orthodoxy
One must love God first, and only then can one love one's closest of kin and neighbors. We must not be idols to one another, for such is not the will of God.
Thaddeus of VitovnicaTags: love family christianity god spirituality idolatry neighbors eastern-orthodoxy will-of-god
Where there is prayer, the fallen spirits have no power.
Thaddeus of VitovnicaTags: inspirational christianity prayer demons eastern-orthodoxy
Our life depends on the kind of thoughts we nurture. If our thoughts are peaceful, calm, meek, and kind, then that is what our life is like. If our attention is turned to the circumstances in which we live, we are drawn into a whirlpool of thoughts and can have neither peace nor tranquility.
Thaddeus of VitovnicaTags: life thinking peace christianity thoughts tranquility eastern-orthodoxy
We have very little faith in the Lord, very little trust. If we trusted the Lord as much as we trust a friend when we ask him to do something for us, neither we as individuals nor our whole country would suffer so much.
Thaddeus of VitovnicaTags: christianity faith self-help spirituality jesus-christ political eastern-orthodoxy trusting-god
It is of great significance if there is a person who truly prays in a family. Prayer attracts God's Grace and all the members of the family feel it, even those whose hearts have grown cold. Pray always.
Thaddeus of VitovnicaTags: family christianity god prayer god-s-grace eastern-orthodoxy
The Lord does not require us to wear a [cassock] — He wants us to be good and kind.
Thaddeus of VitovnicaTags: kindness christianity spirituality jesus-christ monasticism eastern-orthodoxy
One should preach not from one's rational mind but rather from the heart. Only that which is from the heart can touch another heart. One must never attack or oppose anyone. If he who preaches must tell people to keep away from a certain kind of evil, he must do so meekly and humbly, with fear of God.
Thaddeus of VitovnicaTags: christianity humility meekness preaching eastern-orthodoxy fear-of-god
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