#eastern

It is of great significance if there is a person who truly prays in a family. Prayer attracts God's Grace and all the members of the family feel it, even those whose hearts have grown cold. Pray always. ↗

— Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

#eastern-orthodoxy #family #god #god-s-grace #prayer

We are the country that has attracted the biggest volume of foreign investment in southeastern Europe in the past few years. Romania doesn't need to beat itself, believing that it is a second-class citizen. ↗

— Traian Basescu

#beat #believing #biggest #citizen #country

The only thing I oppose is persecuting of Eastern Orthodox priests and temples. ↗

— Vladimir Zhirinovsky

#i #only #oppose #orthodox #priests

We'll surely stop the work of all western Christian and eastern religions, and also Islam. ↗

— Vladimir Zhirinovsky

#christian #eastern #islam #religions #stop

I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#city #commitment #committed #doing #eastern

I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I could well have done. They seemed a bit extreme but I regarded myself as not quite ready. ↗

— Mary Garden

#could #did #done #eastern #even

I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#i #never #nobel #select #surprised

Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#central #cold #cold war #courage #decades

I think that we're beginning to globalize medicine now. You have to take Eastern approaches and bring them to the West, and share West with the East. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#beginning #bring #east #eastern #i

The present aristocracy of western culture, at the moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#being #clearly #country #culture #dominates