If you will have patience in difficulties you know the Holy Spirit is within you, if you will also have the strength to be thankful in troubles than is when the Holy Spirit shines through you.
E
Topic
eastern-orthodoxy
/eastern-orthodoxy-quotes-and-sayings
21
Quotes
Topic Summary
About the eastern-orthodoxy quote collection
The eastern-orthodoxy page groups 21 quotes under one canonical topic hub so readers and answer engines can cite a stable source instead of fragmented search results.
Topic Feed
Quotes filed under eastern-orthodoxy
Sometimes, late at night, the words are only whispers_ Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God. The quiet is kindness and gratitude and calm__ave mercy on me, a sinner. And I fall asleep like that, the words of the Jesus Prayer melting from English to Greek_ Kyrie Iesou Christe. Floating around me_ Yie tou Theou. Swimming apart from me_ Eleison me.
The East is unfamiliar with those confessions, memoirs, and autobiographies so beloved in the West. There is a clear difference in tonality. One's gaze never lingers on the suffering humanity of Christ, but penetrates behind the kenotic veil. To the West's mysticism of the Cross and its veneration of the Sacred Heart corresponds the eastern mysticism of the sealed tomb, from which eternal life eternal wells up.