Quotes - Archangel Michael Orthodox Church

A collection of scriptural meditations from Saints and Fathers of the Church.

Holy Tradition

Of the beliefs and public doctrines entrusted to the care of the Church, there are some which are based on Scriptural teaching, others which we have received handed down in mystery by the tradition of the Apostles; and in relation to the true religion they both have the same force.

St. Basil the Great

Holy Tradition

Before the writing of the Holy Scriptures, that is, of the sacred texts of the Gospels, the Acts and the Epistles of the Apostles, and before they were spread to the churches of the world, the church was based on Sacred Tradition....The holy texts are in relation to Sacred Tradition what the part is to the whole.

St. Nectarios of Aegina

Fools for Christ

And so the holy apostle Paul was not angry when the world called him a ‘fool for Christ’, but, in defiance of the world, accepted the name. It is of no concern, either, to us, how the world regards and calls us. It is, though, of the greatest concern to us how the angels in heaven will regard us and call us when we meet with them after death. That is of fateful importance, and all else is meaningless.

St. Nikolai Velimirovic

Fools for Christ

We are either fools to the world because of Christ or fools to Christ because of the world.

St. Nikolai Velimirovic