"The devil wouldn't be attacking you so hard if God didn't have something good planned for you, thieves don't rob empty houses"
- Matthew McConaughey
"Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see"
- Mark Twain
"Humility is an acknowledgement of one's intellectual deficit. Humility is an accurate knowledge of one's limitations, weaknesses, and strengths. Humility is true self-knowledge which considers others as more important than themselves, and finds its worth primarily in its relationship to its creator. God turns away the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Like the publican who stood at the back of the temple and only prayed that God would have mercy on him for his many sins, so we too should approach our work with a constant awareness of our brokenness and need for grace from both God and our fellow man. Without Humility, one cannot become Wise."
- Joshua Leland
"The wise man learns from everything and everyone, the ordinary man learns from his experience, and the fool knows everything better."
- Socrates
"No matter how just your words may be, when you speak with anger, you ruin all; no matter how boldly you speak, how fairly reprove, or what not. Are you angry? Be angry at your sins, beat your soul, afflict your conscience, but strict in judgement and a terrible punisher of your own sins. This is the benefit of anger, wherefore God placed it in us.”
-St. John Chrysostom
"A laugh is worth far more than a diamond"
- GoodTimesWithScar
"With great power comes great tomfoolery."
- Sam'o'nella
"If I had asked the people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."
- Henry Ford
"The true test of man's character is how much of the truth of himself he can bear"
- C. Jung
"For therein stands the office of a King, His Honour, Vertue, Merit and chief Praise, That for the Publick all this weight he bears. Yet he who reigns within himself, and rules Passions, Desires, and Fears, is more a King; Which every wise and vertuous man attains: And who attains not, ill aspires to rule Cities of men, or head-strong Multitudes, Subject himself to Anarchy within, Or lawless passions in him which he serves."
-John Milton
"God hears our hearts, not our words"
-IMBeggar
“The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.”
-Flannery O'Connor
"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."
- Flannery O'Connor
"Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, 'Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.'"
- Paul (Romans 12:19)
"Do not be arrogant towards the branches. If you are, remember it is not you who support the root, but the root who supports you."
- Paul (Romans 11:18)
“If you believe what you like about the gospel and reject what you do not like, it is not the Gospel you believe in, but yourself.”
- St. Augustine of Hippo
"Oh, I get it. I'm sure I've been scammed before. If I get scammed 99 times but help one actual person, it's worth it to me."
- Random Redditor
“You will fatigue greatly until you realize that prayer without attention and watchfulness is a waste of time, work without pay. Without attention, both the nous [the eye of the soul] and the powers of the soul are diffused in vain and ordinary things, like useless water running down the streets.”
– Saint Joseph
"To condemn a heresy is relatively easy. What is much more difficult is to detect the question it implies, and to give this question an adequate answer."
- Alexander Schmemann
"God reveals and offers us eternal Life, and not eternal rest."
- Edith Mary Hunphrey or Schmemann
"The Truth will set you free, but first, it will make you miserable."
- James Garfield
"In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know."
- Nicholas Gomez DeVille
“I spent my 20s figuring out what I wanted to do, I spent my 30s figuring out how to do it, and now that I’m in my 40s I’m doing it and plan to continue doing it. We can’t control (success). That’s in God’s hands. But what you can control is how you act within this industry."
- Gunderson
"If you don't do it with love, truth is useless"
- Joshua Leland
"Even Hitler held the door for people"
- Joshua Gibbs
"One of the reason's society is so stupid is because you're not allowed to tell other people they are stupid."
- Joshua Gibbs
"Before you heal someone, ask him if he's willing to give up the things that make him sick."
- Hippocrates
"No good deed goes unpunished."
- Unknown
"Beauty will save the world because beauty will make the horse want to drink."
- Joshua Gibbs
"God prefers a humble defeat over a proud victory."
- Father Spyridon/Church Fathers
"Only the lifeless are exempt from the battles of lust. We know, then, that the struggle of flesh and the spirit is extremely useful to us...to gain self-control and mastery over our desires."
- St. John Cassian
"The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully."
- St. Paul
"If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness."
- St. Paul
"Let us be sorrowful and troubled, not about physical afflictions and losses, but over the things that damage our souls."
- St Gregory Palamas
"The only hope of salvation from the delusions and the heresies, the innovations and the traps of wicked people and the devil is prayer, repentance and humility."
- St. Joseph the Hesychast
"For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain."
- St. Paul (Philippians 1:21)
"For the love of money is the root of all evil"
- St. Paul
"If we have died with him, we will also live with him; if we endure, we will also reign with him;
if we deny him, he also will deny us; if we are faithless, he remains faithful— for he cannot deny himself."
- St. Paul (2 Timothy 2:11-13)
"... always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry."
- St. Paul (2 Timothy 4:5)
"Only struggle a little more. Carry your cross without complaining. Don't think you are anything special. Don't justify your sins and weaknesses, but see yourself as you really are. And, especially, love one another."
- Father Seraphim Rose
"The same fire which purifies gold, consumes wood; so in the fire of tribulation the just acquire new beauty & perfection, while the wicked, like dry wood, are reduced to ashes"
- St John Chrysostom
"Patience, the winter of afflictions will pass, and the beautiful spring will bring the fragrance of the grace of God."
- Elder Ephraim of Arizona and Mount Athos
"The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient towards you, not wishing any should perish, but that all should reach repentance."
- St. Peter (2 Peter 3:9)
"You may feel no purpose nor a point for existing
It's all just conjecture and gloom
And there may not be meaning, so find one and seize it"
- Achilles Come Down (Gang of Youths)
"Baptism is the forgiveness of sins, not their removal."
- Fr. Alexander Schmemann
“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.”
- St. Silouan the Athonite
"But in Christ suffering is not "removed"; it is transformed into victory."
- Fr. Alexander Schmemann
"And if I make this new life mine, mine this hunger and thirst for the Kingdom, mine this expectation of Christ, mine the certitude that Christ is Life, then my very death will be an act of communion with Life. For neither life nor death can separate us from the love of Christ."
- Fr. Alexander Schmemann
"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
- Cesar A. Cruz
"The transformation of the soul can only take place when we submit to God, when we are obedient to his will, when we attempt to imitate the obedience of Christ, even to death. This is a battle we face continuously- the whole of our lives."
- Fr. Spyridon
"We only resemble Christ when we fight against our ego; when we try to cut off our own will."
- Fr. Spyridon
"Every new sin is a fresh nail driven into the body of Christ."
- Elder Ephraim of Arizona
"If there is no urgency because we think we are saved, then the Devil wins. The Devil wins our soul."
- Fr. Spyridon
"Through repentance the filth of our foul actions is washed away. After this, we participate in the Holy Spirit, not automatically, but according to the faith, humility and inner disposition of the repentance in which our soul is engaged. For this reason it is good to repent each day as the act of repentance is unending."
- St. Symeon the New Theologian
"Sometimes you're in a dark place and you think you've been buried. But in actuality you've been planted."
- Friend of a Friend
"I don't eat what my food eats"
- Ron Swanson
"You can use science to justify anything"
- Mr. Morrow
More coming soon!
