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"He is 'the same yesterday and today and forever' (Hebrews 13:8). Orthodox Christians are committed to the truth claim of the Christian Faith not as ideology but as an expression of holiness." —Rev. Dr. George C. Papademetriou
“Through [Communion] the Church fulfills herself, accomplishes our communion with Christ and with his love, so that in participating in it, we comprise ‘out of many, one body’” —Schmemann, The Eucharist, p. 138 `War in the name of religion is war against religion.' —His All Holiness all Holyness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, Archbishop of Constantinople
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`The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.' —Nelson Henderson
`Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.' —GK Chesterton
`Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.' —William Blake
`The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.' —K'ung Fu-Tzu (Confucius)
`I teach them all the good I can, and recommend them to others from whom I think they will get some moral benefit. And the treasures that the wise men of old have left us in their writings I open and explore with my friends. If we come on any good thing, we extract it, and we set much store on being useful to one another.' —Socrates
`Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashionsWe walk by the light we are given.' —GK Chesterton—Frank Shaeffer
`Truth can never be told so as Compared to what we ought to be understood and not be believed, we are half awake.' —William BlakeJames
`We walk by It is strictly and philosophically true in nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything really existing, anything that is truly an agent or the light we are givencause of any event; but they signify merely men's ignorance of the real and immediate cause.' —Frank Shaeffer—Samuel Clark
`Compared While the admission of a design for the universe ultimately raises the question of a Designer (a subject outside of science), the scientific method does not allow us to what we ought exclude data which lead to bethe conclusion that the universe, we life and man are half awakebased on design. To be forced to believe only one conclusion--that everything in the universe happened by chance would violate the very objectivity of science itself.' —William James—Werner Von Braun, Ph.D., the father of the NASA space Program
`Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.' —Albert Einstein
'If everyone has his own truth, then where is falsehood?' —Archbishop Stephan (Kalaidjishvili)
`God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself because it is not there. There is no such thing.' —C.S. Lewis
`And so it is incumbent upon us to strive, rather, to correct our faults and to improve our behavior.' —St. John Cassian
`In imitation of the method of the bee, I shall make my composition from those things which are conformable with the truth and from our enemies themselves gather the fruit of salvation. But I shall reject all that is worthless and falsely labeled as knowledge.' —St. John the Damascene
`But our opinion is in accordance with the Eucharist, and the Eucharist in turn establishes our opinion.' —St. Irenaeus
`Shun the praise of men and love the one who, in the fear of the Lord, reprimands you.' —St. Pachomius
`Humility consists, not in condemning our conscience, but in recognizing God's grace and compassion.' —St. Mark the Ascetic
`Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.' —St. Augustine
