A thread to discuss authors like Dostoevsky and Vodolazkin, and works like the Philokalia and The Way of a Pilgrim
Quotes welcome
>He whose will and desire in conversation is to establish his own opinion, even though what he says is true, should recognize that he is sick with the devil’s disease. And if he behaves like this only in conversation with his equals, then perhaps the rebuke of his superiors may heal him. But if he acts in this way even with those who are greater and wiser than he, then his malady is humanly incurable. -The Ladder of Divine Ascent
>Mercy and justice in one soul is like a man who worships God and the idols in one house. Mercy is opposed to justice. Justice is the equality of the even scale, for it gives to each as he deserves; and when it makes recompense, it does not incline to one side or show respect of persons. Mercy, on the other hand, is a sorrow and pity stirred up by goodness, and it compassionately inclines a man in the direction of all; it does not requite a man who is deserving of evil, and to him who is deserving of good it gives a double portion. If, therefore, it is evident that mercy belongs to the portion of righteousness, then justice belongs to the portion of wickedness. As grass and fire cannot coexist in one place, so justice and mercy cannot abide in one soul. As a grain of sand cannot counterbalance a great quantity of gold, so in comparison God’s use of justice cannot counterbalance His mercy. -The Ascetic Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian
>All thinking denotes multitude or dyad at any rate, because it is a relation in the middle of certain extremes, conjoining the one who thinks with what is being thought. And none of them by nature saves simplicity entirely, since the one who thinks is some subject, having necessarily as a constituent the power of thinking. And what is being thought is at any rate a subject or into a subject, having as a constituent the potentiality of being thought or having underlying the essence of that, of which itself is the power. There isn’t any being at all, that is in itself a simple essence or mind, so that to be also indivisibly one. But God, whether we may call him essence, He doesn’t have by his nature as a constituent the power of being thought, because He is not composite, or (if we call him) thinking, He doesn’t have by his nature an underlying essence receptive of thinking.
-Maximos the Confessor's Two Centuries on Theology
Austin Wright
HAHAHA NICE SPOOKS NERDS!
Justin Adams
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William Thompson
As someone born and raised in an Orthodox place, I must say it's always strange seeing foreigners being interested in this branch of Christianity. I've never thought anyone would find it appealing, especially in the more western places.
Ethan Walker
>branch It's the kind Christ founded. There are not branches of that, there's just one.
Xavier Diaz
It's LARPing by people who don't like modernity.
Lucas Jackson
This is what I initially thought, since it does appear somewhat mystical at first sight. Don't be autistic, you know what I meant.
Sebastian Davis
orthodox are redpilled, mainline denominations are liberalising
Liam Collins
I don't like (certain aspects) of modernist because I'm Orthodox, I'm not Orthodox because I don't like modernity. Before converting, I was a Marxist.
