#nit

Orthodoxy is marked by sobriety, not by emotional enthusiasm. It is also marked by a quite “ordinary” persistence in living the humble, consistent life of Christ, not by seeking out extraordinary experiences, especially supernatural ones. ↗

— Andrew Stephen Damick

#christianity #eastern-orthodox-church #orthodox-christianity #orthodoxy #experience

No furniture is so charming as books. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#furniture #memoir

It is here that we see the dawn of hope: for no matter how formidably Communism bristles with tanks and rockets, no matter what successes it attains in seizing the planet, it is doomed never to vanquish Christianity. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#communism #communism

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting. ↗

— John Russell

#interesting #madness #more #sanity

The only difference between me and a madman is I'm not mad. ↗

— Salvador Dalí

#sanity #madness

We all have an inner voice, our personal whisper from the universe. All we have to do is listen -- feel and sense it with an open heart. Sometimes it whispers of intuition or precognition. Other times, it whispers an awareness, a remembrance from another plane. Dare to listen. Dare to hear with your heart. ↗

— C.J. Heck

#intuition #listen-with-an-open-heart #precognition #remembrance #spirituality

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity. ↗

— Voltaire

#consciousness #dissolution #eternal #infinity #knowing

I will continue to freak out my children by knitting in public. It's good for them. ↗

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

#knitting #meditation

The prince of darkness is a gentleman! ↗

— William Shakespeare

#irony #irony

Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone one who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. ↗

— Anonymous

#faith #god #love #philosophy #truth