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OrthodoxHelp.org: Saint Gregory on the Divine Light
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Saint Gregory on the Divine Light. The highest light is God, unapproachable and ineffable, neither grasped by the mind nor expressed in language. It illumines every reason-endowed nature. It is to intelligible realities what the sun is to sense-perceptible realities. To the extent that we are purified it appears, to the extent that it appears it is loved, to the extent that it is loved it is again known. It both contemplates and comprehends itself and is poured out but a little to those outside itself.
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OrthodoxHelp.org: Saint Maximos on paradigms
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Saint Maximos on paradigms. For they say that God and man are paradigms of each other, so that as much as man, enabled by love, has divinized himself for God, to that same extent God is humanized for man by His love for mankind; and as much as man has manifested God who is invisible by nature through the virtues, to that same extent man is rapt by God in mind to the unknowable. Mdash; Saint Maximos the Confessor, Ambiguum 10. 8594; Filed under: Divine Knowledge. 8212; John 4:14. Read the words of Saint .
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OrthodoxHelp.org: Saint Gregory on the Three Births
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Saint Gregory on the Three Births. The word of Scripture recognizes three births for us: one from the body, one from baptism, and one from resurrection. The first takes place at night and in slavery and in passions. The second takes place in the day and in freedom and releases from passions, cutting away all the veil that has surrounded us since birth and leading us back toward the life on high. Mdash; Saint Gregory the Theologian, Oration 40, On Baptism. 8594; Filed under: Baptism. 8212; John 4:14.
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OrthodoxHelp.org: Saint Maximos on Marriage and Celibacy
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Saint Maximos on Marriage and Celibacy. Mdash; Saint Maximos the Confessor, Ambiguum 10. 8594; Filed under: Celibacy. But whosoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. 8212; John 4:14. For more advice and inspiration from the Fathers, subscribe to our sister site's page on Facebook, Orthodox Writer. Read the words of Saint . Copres of the Desert. Doulas of the Desert.
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OrthodoxHelp.org: Saint Nikolai on Regeneration in Christ
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Saint Nikolai on Regeneration in Christ. Just as the bleak forest clothes itself into greenery and flower from the breath of spring, so does every man, regardless of how arid and darkened by sin, become fresh and youthful from the nearness of Christ. For the nearness of Christ is as the nearness of some lifegiving and fragrant balsam which restores health, increases life, gives fragrance to the soul, to the thoughts and to the words of man. Mdash; Saint Nikolai, Prologue. 8212; John 4:14.
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OrthodoxHelp.org: Saint Paisios on worldly chaos
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Saint Paisios on worldly chaos. What I see around me would drive me insane if I did not know that no matter what happens, God will have the last word. Mdash; Saint Paisios of Mount Athos. 8594; Filed under: Injustice. But whosoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. 8212; John 4:14. Read the words of Saint . Copres of the Desert. Doulas of the Desert. Elias of the Desert.
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OrthodoxHelp.org: Saint Nikolai on the Difference between Learnedness and Goodness
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Saint Nikolai on the Difference between Learnedness and Goodness. There is a great difference between a learned man and a good man. The learned man can do good, but the good man will do good. The learned man can build the world up, but can destroy it too; the good man can only build it up. Mdash; Saint Nikolai Velimirovich, Serbia in Light and Darkness. 8594; Filed under: Education. 8212; John 4:14. Read the words of Saint . Copres of the Desert. Doulas of the Desert. Elias of the Desert.
