Other quotes

  • I just entered the “acquire inward peace” line from St. Seraphim below into the Quotes sec­tion, so it’ll show up as one of the ran­domly occur­ring quotes in the right col­umn. The one line ver­sion is prob­a­bly every Ortho­dox person’s favorite quote (and all I could fit into the para­me­ters of that sec­tion), but here’s the longer ver­sion that appeared in “Daily Lives”:

    When the Spirit of God descends upon a man and over­shad­ows him with the full­ness of His out­pour­ing, then his soul over­flows with a joy not to be described, for the Holy Spirit turns to joy what­ever He touches. The king­dom of heaven is peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Acquire inward peace, and thou­sands around you will find their salvation.

    Here is another quote I liked:

    The Lord Jesus in His mercy grants rest to each accord­ing to his works — to the great accord­ing to his great­ness and to the lit­tle accord­ing to his lit­tle­ness; for he said, “In my Father’s house are many man­sions” (John 14:2). Though the king­dom is one, yet in the one king­dom each finds his own spe­cial place and his own spe­cial work.
    – Isa­ias of Sketis

    And here’s one I came across from a non-Christian source. It has been quoted fre­quently, but I still find it meaningful:

    I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
    I awoke and saw that life was ser­vice.
    I acted and behold, ser­vice was joy.

    – Rabindranath Tagore


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    June 1st, 2006 | Grace | 2 Comments |

2 Responses and Counting...

  • Mimi 06.01.2006

    I’ve never read more than the one line ver­sion (and you are right, it’s one of my favorites). Thank you!

  • Nicode­mus

    Hey — I love that quote — makes me want to pray more. Are you aware of any resources online that have pithy Ortho­dox quotes — one-liners preferably…I have a white­board out­side my office that would be a great plat­form for prop­a­gat­ing an Ortho­dox world­view in lit­tle one-line ser­mons. I tried search­ing but usu­ally the Ortho­dox quotes I find are fairly long…no one will stop to read those I’m sure. Let me know what you find — thanks, Grace!

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