For in You, Sophia, is the spirit of understanding: holy, one, manifold, subtle, eloquent, active, undefiled, sure, sweet, loving that which is good, quick, which nothing hinders, beneficent, gentle, kind, steadfast, assured, secure, having all power, overseeing all things, and containing all spirits, intelligible, pure, subtle. For You, Sophia, are more active than all active things, and reach everywhere by reason of Your purity. For You are a vapor of the power of God, and a certain pure emanation of the glory of the almighty God, and therefore no defiled thing comes into You. For You are the brightness of eternal light, and the unspotted mirror of God’s majesty, and the image of God’s goodness. For You are more beautiful than the sun, and above all the order of the stars; being compared with the light, You are found before it. (Wisdom 7:22-26, 29)
Neither faith nor miracles mean a thing, if one does not live virtuously!
St. John Chrysostom
There are two ways of spreading the light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton
Though no one can go back and make a new start, anyone can start from now, and make a brand new ending.
Carl Bard
It's good to have an end to journey toward, but it's the journey that matters, in the end.
Ursula K. LeGuin
Do not despair because of suffering, for life is suffering. Suffering and also joy. When life brings
suffering, hurt. When life brings joy, laugh. Cling to nothing for all is fleeting.
Rabbi Nittai of Arbel
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
Christianity started out in Palestine as a fellowship; it moved to Greece and became a philosophy; it moved to Italy and became an institution; it moved to Europe and became a culture; it came to America and became an enterprise.
Sam Pascoe, American scholar.
Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.
Francis of Assisi.
The Inward Temple. There is no need to weep much over the destruction of a church; after all, each of us, according to God's mercy, has or should have his own church-the heart; go in there and pray, as much as you have strength and time. If this church is not well made and is abandoned (without inward prayer), then the visible church will be of little benefit.
Archbishop Barlaam to Abbess M., Russia's Catacomb Saints
And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
St. Paul, Ephesians 3:16-19
The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
Elton Trueblood, (1900 - 1994), American author and theologian.
Many people think that the Bible is the authentic word of God and they worship the Bible, making it an idol...
Alan Watts, from "The Essence of Alan Watts series - GOD
Knowing who you are is impossible without knowing where you are.
Paul Shepherd
A mistake in our understanding of creation will necessarily cause a mistake in our understanding of God.
Thomas Aquinas
He who is able to pray correctly, even if he is the poorest of all people, is essentially the richest. And he who does not have proper prayer, is the poorest of all, even if he sits on a royal throne.
St John Chrysostom
Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
Abraham Heschel
Knowledge helps you make a living, Wisdom helps you live life
Fortune Cookie
In essentials, unity;
In doubtful matters, liberty;
In all things, charity!
Peter Meiderlin (17th century Lutheran Theologian)
A man who has commited a mistake and doesn't correct it is commiting another mistake.
Confucius - 551-479 B.C.
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust 1871-1922
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered, the point is to discover them.
Galilleo Gadlilei 1564-1642
"SEVEN DANGERS TO HUMAN VIRTUE"
Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Business without ethics, Science without humanity, Religion without sacrifice, Politica without principle.
Mahatma Gandhi
Not to know is bad, Not to want to know is worst, Not to care is unforgivable!
Kenya saying
A theology without action is a theology of the devil!
St. Maximos the Confessor
In China we can criticize Darwin but not the government. In America you can criticize the government, but not Darwin.
Jun-Yuan Chen, Research Professor Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology
I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
Ian Kant
A new outlook brightens your image and brings new friends.
Fortune Cookie
The people who get the right answers are the ones who ask the most questions.
Anonymous Quote
It is not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Henry David Thoreau.
The church, not the state, is holy. Nor is the mission of the church, which is universal, to be conflated with national priorities.
Mark Tooley, President of the Institute on Religion and Democracy.
