“There is no joy in this world without God.”
“Love for Christ overflows into love for one’s neighbour, love for truth, love for Holiness, for the world, for purity, for everything Divine, for everything deathless and Eternal. All these forms of love are natural manifestations of love for Christ. Christ is the God-man, and love for Him always means love for God and for man. When we love Christ God, we also love all that is Divine, immortal and Christ-like in people. We can’t truly love people if we do not love them for the sake of these causes. Any other love is pseudo-love, which is easily changed into lovelessness and hatredness toward people. True love for man comes from love for God, and love for God grows in accordance with the keeping of His commandments.”
“The Gospel is endlessly written. All of creation, as a logical creation, ceaselessly writes the Gospel of the Logos – of the Lord Christ. Every violet writes it; every blade of grass, every insect, every bird; and especially humanity – as a God-like, Christ-like being.”
“The sign of purity is: to rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep; to be in pain with the sick and in anguish with the sinners; to rejoice with the repentant and to participate in the agony of those who suffer; to criticize no man and, in the purity of one’s own mind, to see all men as good and Holy.”
“It is only through its Divine-human power that Christianity is the “salt” of the Earth, a salt which preserves humanity from decomposing into sin and evil. If, however, Christianity becomes decomposed into various humanistic elements, then it becomes lifeless, it becomes a “saltless” salt, which, according to the ever-true word of the Saviour, “is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trodden under foot by men” (Matth. 5:13).””
“Anything created that breaks off from Him [the God-man] inevitably plunges into chaos and grief. And when a people, as a group, deny the God-man, their history turns into a journey through hell and its horrors.”
“Without doubt, matter is represented in the human body in a manner which is most puzzling, most mysterious, and most complex. The brain: What wondrous mysteries pass between its physical and Spiritual parts! How vast is the experience of the human race. In no manner can one ever fully comprehend or grasp these mysteries. Indeed, little of this is accessible to the human senses or intellectual investigation. So it is also with the heart of man, formed as it is entirely and solely from cosmic mysteries. So formed, too, are every cell, every molecule, every atom. Everyone and all are set on their mystical path toward God, toward the God-Man. Inasmuch as it was created by God, the Logos, matter possesses this same Theocentricity. Moreover, by His advent into our Earthly world, by His all-embracing condescension as God and Man for the redemption of the world, the Lord Christ clearly demonstrated that not only the Soul, but matter also was created by God and for God, and that He is God and Man; and for it, matter, He is all and everything in the same manner as for the Soul. Being created by God, the Logos, matter is, in its innermost core, God-longing and Christ-longing.”
“This is what it is to be of Christ: to feel yourself perpetually crucified to the world, persecuted by it, violated and spat-upon. The world will not tolerate Christ-bearing men just as it would not tolerate Christ.”
“Education without God has led Europe and the whole world into a darkness, such as humanity has never seen. In this darkness, no one knows anyone and no one recognizes his brother… If man is without Christ, without God, namely, without this unique inextinguishable light, how will he disperse the gloom of the universe, which from all sides – attacks him? And how will he expel the darkness within him? With all his lights [i.e., man’s worldly achievements through secular knowledge], but without God, man is nothing other than a firefly in the infinite darkness of the universe.”
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