Reader John (Amir) Azarvan, Ph.D.
The ideal world, according to communism, coheres well with the Christian view of the eschaton: a stateless, classless world. But communists err in thinking that man, alone, can arrive at or at least approach this end goal.
St. Gabriel of Imereti
Happiness is the state of a calm, joyful, and cheerful soul, and only a man with a clear conscience can experience it.
St. John of Kronstadt
We are told: It is no big deal to eat non-Lenten food during Lent. It is no big deal if you wear expensive beautiful outfits, go to the theater, to parties, to masquerade balls, use beautiful expensive china, furniture, expensive carriages and dashing steeds, amass and hoard things, etc.
And in summer in our God–preserved city of Lugansk, as if by special order exactly during the Eucharistic Canon the glass in our church windows and stained-glass windows would always begin to shake badly from the nearby artillery fire. And what next?No one left!
St. Seraphim (Chichagov)
The proclamation of anathema means excommunication from the Church; that is, from the society of believers, and the loss of the blessing of God, the blessings of the Kingdom of Heaven.
