Let's discuss Orthodox works.
Laurus
Nihilism (by Father Seraphim)
Dostoevsky's works
The Way of the Pilgrim
The Philokalia
Quotes welcome
"The soul’s distress is the result of sensual pleasure. For it is sensual pleasure that produces distress of soul. Similarly, distress in the flesh is the result of the soul’s pleasure. For the soul’s felicity is the flesh’s distress."
-Saint Maximos the Confessor
I've recommended these books on here before: The Orthodox Way by Kallistos Ware and On the Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ, which is a collection of works by St. Maximus the Confessor.
I loved reading St. Maximus.
I got a lot of suggestions yesterday that i saved in a text file. I'd like to hear what people thought of them. Not all are Orthodox.
St. Ephrem the Syrian
Didache
St. Justin Martyr
Mystical Theology / Divine Names - St. Dionysius the Areopagite
St. Gregory of Nyssa, Life of Moses
St. Palamas
St. Basil
More Seraphim Rose
St. Ignatius Brianchaninov - The Arena
The Orthodox Church - Kallistos Ware
Interior Castle by St. Teresa of Avila
Story of a Soul by St. Therese of Lisieux
The Philokalia
The Ladder of Divine Ascent
Summa Theologiae
The Didache
The Desert Fathers
The Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales
Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi
Rome Sweet Home by Scott Hahn
The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton
The Dark Night of the Soul by St. John of the Cross
Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton
The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton
City of God
Apologia Pro Vita Sua by John Newman
The Spirit of Catholicism
Against Heresies
Dialogues by St. Catherine of Sienna
Spiritual Exercises by St. Ignatius
CATHOLICISM by Robert Barron
The Catechism of the Catholic Church
The Last Superstition
The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy by Etienne Gilson
Introduction to Christianity by Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict the XVI)
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
The Long Loneliness by Dorothy Day
The Way of Perfection by St. Teresa of Avila
The Imitation of Christ by Thomas Kempis
New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton
Don Quixote by Cervantes
The Divine Comedy
Paradise Lost
Silence by Shusaku Endo
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller Jr.
Faust
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
The Canterbury Tales
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Descent Into Hell by Charles Williams
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Good shit mun thanks
Thanks
That's a lot of book. Where do I begin from?
>that quote
Was that guy into BDSM or something?
"For the Life of the World" by Alexander Schmemann
"Beginning to Pray" by Metropolitan Anthony Bloom
"Our Thoughts Determone Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica"
"St. Siloan the Athonite" by Elder Sophrony of Essex
"Prayers by the Lake," St. Nikolai Velimirovitch
"Iconography," Fr. Pavel Florensky
"The Ancestral Sin" by John S. Romanides
"Sayings of the Desert Fathers," tr. by Benedicta Ward
St. Isaac the Syrian
"On the Incarnation of the Word," St. Athanasius
"The Orthodox Church" by Timothy (Met. Kallistos) Ware
"The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine," Jaroslav Pelikan
nice recs
How does it feel to be too much of a coward to accept existential nihilism as the evident truth?
>The soul’s distress is the result of sensual pleasure. For it is sensual pleasure that produces distress of soul.
what a retard