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Saint Basil: "As it’s impossible to verbally describe the sweetness of honey to one who has never tasted honey, so the goodness of God can’t be clearly communicated by way of teaching if we ourselves aren’t able to enter into the goodness of the Lord by our own experience." #orthodoxy #orthodox #saintbasil #churchfathers #Christianity #orthodoxchristian
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Illustration on God's absence inspired by Beginning to pray Pray - Antony Bloom #orthodoxy #Orthodox #church #Christian #OrthodoxChristian #DesertFathers #ChurchFathers #Christian #Christ #Christianity #bible #Jesus #faith #God #Egypt #Coptic #Copts #art #illustration #artwork #drawing #photoshop #painting
Sometimes, I read a saying from the fathers, and it's precisely what my soul longs to say. I try to add to it, to subtract from it, but conclude that this is just what I wanted to say. Nothing more. Nothing less. May Abba Arsenius remember us in his prayers so that, according to God's goodness, I make make a beginning - just a beginning - of good.
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“Orthodoxy will lose all its salt if each one of us does not strive first of all for this personal faith and for this hunger for salvation, redemption, and deification. Christianity begins only when we take seriously the words of Christ: “Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness; and all things shall be added unto you (Matthew 6:33).” Fr. Alexander Schmemann December 13, 1983
Abba Ammonas – Love the Lord with all your heart
Orthodox Christian Desert Father Abba Ammonas - "To my beloved in our Lord, If any man love the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might, he will acquire awe, and awe will beget in him weeping, and weeping joy, and joy will beget strength, and in all this the soul will bear fruit."
Free Saint Antony the Great eBook for Orthodox Chidlren
My new book for little kiddos is available - and it's FREE! But only for a limited time. Share this post too as it's only free for the week. It teaches children about humility and introduces them to Saint Antony the Great. It tells the story of a group of palm leaflets in the desert. The leaflets argue which among them is Saint Antony's favorite, and are shocked to learn the truth!