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“One who is pure in heart will not see in himself anything except God.” ~ St Gregory of Nyssa

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@calvinrobinson Repent.

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@TaraBull808 Sometimes I wonder about what happened to this guy

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@calvinrobinson Malice.

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This hit me hard tonight. From Father Sergei Bulgakov’s Spiritual Diary

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“A French writer has said: ‘To say to a person ‘I love you’ is tantamount to saying ‘you shall never die’ b/c it is a supreme affirmation of this person. A person who is thus affirmed cannot fall out of eternity, of God’s eternity, b/c all love is of God.” ~ Met. Anthony Bloom

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@MrPassive_ It must be so miserable to be this terrified of death

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@peterdaou The @DNC has made @AOC their attack dog in exchange for power, pure and simple.

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@ChrisLynnHedges May her memory be eternal!

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@washingtonpost Ok so wait: it took Congress over 8 months (!) to get a one-time (!) payment of only $600 (!) which for most people won’t even cover the cost of one month (!) of rent ? All while they passed a $750 BILLION budget to increase military spending during peace time? This is shameful.

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I once told my spiritual father, an older Greek man who is a simple but profound Orthodox priest, that I was raised as a Calvinist. He said “What’s that?” I gave him a short explanation and he said, “Oh. Well, thank God then that he saved you from something so stupid.” 🎯

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@RadioGenoa This is not Islam. In Islam Jesus is highly revered as a prophet and messenger of God.

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@thejournalista This is how the USA handles these things. We make MLK Day a federal holiday to say “look how much we care about equality” & then totally sanitize his message to help us forget King’s critiques of American capitalism, militarism & racism that got him murdered by his own government

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@USArmy These response are soul crushing and this is why mankind must put an end to war — before war puts an end to mankind.

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St Gregory of Nyssa continues to blow my mind: “The man who thinks that God can be known does not really have life; for he has been falsely diverted from true Being to something devised by his own imagination. This life-giving nature transcends knowledge…”

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David Bentley Hart is the greatest living American religious thinker & writer. He is even perhaps, say, the C.S. Lewis of our generation. And while DBH may not (yet) be as beloved as Lewis, he’s still a far greater genius & will perhaps even prove to have the greater influence..

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@BloodbathBillyV This is one of the greatest shots in the history of cinema

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@TheCinesthetic This is not about nihilism. It’s about finding meaning in the ubiquitous face of death.

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What the Church has done to Origen of Alexandria over the last 1500+ years is a shameful crime. The vast majority of all those in power East or West have fallen short of his genius & saintliness. So why won’t Orthodox & Catholic leaders be humble, admit we were wrong, and fix it?

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@latestinspace Ah, there it is: the good-ol “Chinese-spy-balloon” explanation.. 🛸

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Friendship 🙂 This is so beautiful.

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St Gregory of Nyssa’s nickname was (and is) “The Pillar of Orthodoxy.” And Gregory was a relentlessly, brilliantly, unapologetically, and unashamed universalist. He believed that God would eventually, somehow, some way — even if it took “ages” — save everything He created.

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I just read the greatest Author's Preface that I have ever read in my life in Sergius Bulgakov's "The Lamb of God." It’s one of those rare moments in reading, where a text — only three pages — has such spiritual power that the reader’s mind is transfigured by the glory of Christ.

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@abc7marccr @ABC7 Bro was like “aw hell no” and was OUT

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@FoundationDads This film is criminally underrated and is, in my opinion, one of the best movies ever made.

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@lyght_bryght_ @TaraBull808 Elbow! Haha

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@snopes Yeah right. Nike had “nothing to do with” a shoe that has their logo on it? 🤨

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David Bentley Hart raised enough to get his surgery done! Thanks to all who helped! He is getting the operation in Carmel, Indiana which is where my home parish is, at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral (where some top-notch surgeons attend as well) 🙏

David Bentley Hart Surgery Fund, organized by Addison Hart

David Bentley Hart (philosopher, theologian, essayist, fiction writer, and my brother) is… Addison Hart needs your support for David Bentley Hart Surgery Fund

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This very unexpectedly brought tears to my eyes

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@amandapalmer Really? You “weren’t ready?” That’s enough of a reason to abort babies now? So you *were* ready for sex but you weren’t ready for the real potential consequence of having sex? Human life was prevented from coming into the world — and we are supposed to celebrate your courage?

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Of course the animals will be saved! ALL CREATION has been saved by Christ! God has made His covenantal promise to Noah (נֹחַ or n-w-ḥ or which means “rest” or “comfort”) — that is, with us, in the Church — and He cannot lie. Fr Pavel Florensky: “Man is connected by his body

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@JumptyTrumpty The @FoxNews propaganda machine has poisoned literally millions of people and torn hundreds of thousands of parents from their children. For profit. @seanhannity has made a whole lot of money from people like me losing their dad to his political heroin.

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@CinemaTweets1 Cool except what’s going on with Tarantino’s ear?

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@ATRightMovies Master and Commander should have won the 2003 Best Picture over The Pianist (and over Lord of the Rings: Return of the King)

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@WrestleClips No way this was a “shoot.”

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@timecaptales Hitler’s art is banal and lifeless. Even at this earlier stage of his life, he already had bad taste.

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Orthobro Twitter really is one of the darkest corners of the internet. They are among the worst of the fundamentalists. Run away from Orthodox fanatics like this or of any religious tradition. They are loveless wolves in sheep’s clothing & will shred you in hate & call it “truth”

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“The sons of the Church will be truly faithful when they cease being tied to the Church and at any moment are free to descend in their thought to the principles and motives of their faith and, having descended, are free to return, because that is what the truth demands.” ~ Pavel

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@historyrock_ EVHs tone is INSANE. ..also I’ve always thought Sammy Hagar has a way better voice than David Lee Roth & it’s not really even close.

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@BearsNationCHI If the NFL isn’t rigged, this guy should never be allowed to referee another game.

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@UberFacts Which begs the question: “Who is the greater criminal: he who robs a bank or he who founds one?”

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Just finished reading Fr Pavel Florensky’s “The Pillar and Ground of the Truth” and can feel the enhancement of my own aura

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This may very well be the greatest single work on religious philosophy that I’ve ever read — and I’m only a third of the way through it. Each of the Letters I’ve read so far have been nothing short of a stunning masterpiece of philosophical theology.

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@BrainXpansion @AMAZlNGNATURE I unexpectedly got tears in my eyes at the end of this. There is something in this that is so ..terrible & ..unnatural. How my soul longs for all creation to be at peace! There is still some childlike hope in me that wants all of God’s majestic creatures ..to be friends again.

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"A single page of Origen teaches more Christian philosophy than ten of Augustine." ~ Erasmus

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Fr Pavel Florensky’s “Gehenna” may be the single greatest essay I’ve ever read in my life: “Thus, if you ask me, “Will there in fact be eternal torment?” I would answer “Yes.” But if you were also to ask me, “Will there be universal restoration in bliss?” I would again say

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The whole universalist vs infernalist vs annihilationist debate would dissipate into the oblivion of the abyss if we would just go & learn what this one saying of our Lord Jesus means: “I desire mercy, not sacrifice. For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners” (Matt 9:13).

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I thought I had read a bunch of geniuses. And I have. ..But then I began reading Fr. Sergius Bulgakov.. This great man was & remains a towering, stupendous marvel of shining brilliance & originality. Along with Origen, he is the most impressive theologian I have ever encountered.

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@othingstodo_com Sam Jackson

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Fr Pavel Florensky, a saintly-genius, mastered mathematics, philosophy, theology, art history, linguistics — and controlled all the European languages, classical & modern, as well as Hebrew & Greek, the Central Asian languages, Sanskrit, and of course Russian with the other

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Origen of Alexandria on how none of us can be saved unless all of us are saved — and on how even our Lord Jesus does not have his joy in full until all of us have ours in full:

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@90sWWE It’s nothing short of a marvel what a simple haircut can do to change our image of a person

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I’m officially becoming addicted to the writings of Fr. Pavel Florensky:

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@historyinmemes His name is St Longinus. After making his confession of faith in Jesus at the foot of the Cross, he converted to Christianity, was martyred for his faith, and has been venerated as a saint ever since. 🔥

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“Christ does not want you to feel the least hatred, resentment, anger or rancor towards anyone in any way or on account of any transitory thing whatsoever. This is proclaimed throughout the four Gospels.” ~ St Maximos the Confessor, The Philokalia

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“The world ..is predestined.. to communion & union with God to the point where “God will be all in all” ..to the point of total deification of the creature [*creation]. ..the world is already divine-human in its foundation. Divine life & creaturely life are united..” ~ Bulgakov

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Jürgen Moltmann has passed away at 98. May his memory be eternal.

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For Fr. Sergius Bulgakov, the entire world is potentially Eucharistic. And so just as the the Eucharistic bread & wine are joined to the heavenly reality of Christ’s divine nature, so will all of creation be united with God at Christ’s second coming. 🔥

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Happy St George MacDonald day! 🔥

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“It is far better ‘to die in the wilderness’ than ‘to serve the Egyptians.’ For he who dies in the wilderness, for the very reason that he has been separated from the power of Satan, has a certain perfection even if he was not able to arrive at completion.” ~ Origen of Alexandria

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Adam Driver should play the lead in Terrence Malick’s final film on the life & death of the saintly-genius Pavel Florensky: “Two Worlds”

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So tired of Christians accusing DBH of “being unChristlike.” What’s unChristlike is constantly accusing a brother. As always, these guys cloak their lack of charity in piety. Hart has translated the New Testament & defended the faith against the new atheists. What’ve you done?

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I’m pretty sure the vast majority of us have been reading Hegel all wrong. Turns out, his project is deeply Christian. It may also be that the greatest Orthodox thinkers like Florensky & Bulgakov etc, who followed in his steps, are in fact “Hegelian.” They all realized the

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@ConnorASheets He should be arrested and put in jail for a few months without bail pending his trial for endangering the public. Hopefully he won’t get COVID while he’s there like many of the other prisoners in Florida jails have.

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“The Incarnation ..is already the Son’s offering of Himself in sacrifice.. Christ breathed the pestilential air of our fallen world. He lived with us in the midst of human sin & malice, constantly wounded & outraged by them. This life.. was one of constant suffering..” ~ Bulgakov

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"God’s recompense to sinners is that, instead of a just recompense, God rewards them with resurrection." ~ St. Isaac of Syria

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@NikMarRita No it’s not. It’s Orthodox. So if you haven’t “added” it already, you should. Only instead of “forever” after “glory” you should say “..of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, both now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.” And you should sing this whole part.

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"God is not the cause of the world, just as the world is not His effect.. God is the Creator of the world & the world is God's creation. The relation of the Creator to creation is essentially different from that of cause to effect." ~ Fr. Bulgakov (on impersonism in Thomism) 💣💥

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“It is necessary to recover the political Jesus of Nazareth from the imperial Christ of Christendom — which was a failure — and whose empire subverted itself.” ~ David Bentley Hart

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People forget that even the Mighty prophet Elijah said “Lord, I want to die.” This was the same man who was later present with Moses the Great at the Transfiguration of our Lord Jesus Christ. Hold on. Be strong.

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@BuzzFeedNews More proof that we live in a police state, not a liberal democracy. Did you vote that the DEA could surveil protesters instead of investigating drug lords? No? Neither did I. So then how did they get these powers? Who voted on it? That democracy, right? 🤔

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GoFundMe for the David Bentley Hart Surgery Fund:

David Bentley Hart Surgery Fund, organized by Addison Hart

David Bentley Hart (philosopher, theologian, essayist, fiction writer, and my brother) is… Addison Hart needs your support for David Bentley Hart Surgery Fund

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“A father’s heart, a heart like our own, only infinite in tenderness, will be found at the bottom of things.” ~ St. George the Divine (George MacDonald)

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Learning to read theology & philosophy (and especially Fr Sergius Bulgakov) has been one of the great blessings of my life. Talking about these heavenly things with friends is even better. I’ve finished Bulgakov’s “Little” Trilogy and am just about to finish up The Bride of the

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I cannot praise this book highly enough. It’s quickly become one of my favorite books I’ve ever read. Gregory is a true master. His exegesis is incredibly inspired. His theology is stunningly beautiful. I hope to read & learn from this little book throughout the rest of my life.

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“Scripture affirms the universal resurrection in glory so unshakably that it should be considered a dogma of the Church. And it is in fact indisputable in the sense that incorruptibility and immortality are given to *all* resurrected bodies. ..This universality of resurrection,

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Origen of Alexandria 🔥

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@rightscholar @BishopBarron I don’t know anything about you but based upon this post alone I can see that you don’t understand the gospel of Christ. Instead of rejoicing that Brand has turned from his sin & despair to Jesus, you spew judgement & scorn. You sound just like the elder brother in the parable.

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"Friendship is the seeing of oneself with the eyes of another, but before a third, namely the Third. [It is] self-contemplation through a Friend in God." ~ Fr Pavel Florensky

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“..despise notoriety.. The time of your struggle is short. ..Every human endeavor closely resembles children preoccupied with making toys out of sand; when they cease from work, the sand melts away and leaves no trace of their efforts. Such is man’s life.” ~ St Gregory of Nyssa

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“..the separation into sheep & goats is accomplished (of course to different degrees) within every individual, and his right & left sides are bared in the separation. To a certain extent all are condemned & all are justified. ..The judgment condemns in every person that which

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“To consider, as is usually done, that having entered paradise, the righteous completely forget about the condemned sinners and are separated from them by the ice wall of this forgetting — is to completely contradict the Church’s entire teaching on salvation and redemption. In

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“Religion consists, not in reasoning about divine things, but in the reception of divinity into one’s being.” ~ Fr Pavel Florensky

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“…this is the real meaning of seeing God; never to have this desire satisfied." ~ St Gregory

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@RollingStone When did Rolling Stone become part of the ministry of propaganda for the authoritarian elites who want unlimited power to control or cancel?

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St Gregory of Nyssa (a universalist named “the father of the fathers” at the 7th Ecumenical Council) translates 1 Tim. 2:4 unambiguously: “For He, ‘Who will have all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth…’ (Commentary on the Canticle, Sermon 1) @EOrthodoxy

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@MuslimIQ Pretty sure if this group was coming against *anyone* in battle, this “display of love” would nonetheless be super intimidating.. God bless them.

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@Angelina_Lina8 The “someone” here is St Nonas. The woman he saw was a prostitute named Pelegia, who later became Saint Margarita. This is from Fr Pavel Florensky’s “The Pillar and Ground of the Truth” pg 226-227

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@jordanbpeterson Dr Peterson have you read the Beatitudes of Jesus? Or the Sermon on the Mount? It’s only 3 chapters: Matthew 5-7. It’s the main, condensed ethical teachings of our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ. You should check it out.

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Still one of my favorite articles of all time: Saint Origen by David Bentley Hart | Articles | First Things

Saint Origen | David Bentley Hart

Amonth or so ago I found myself hovering at the edges of a long, rambling, repetitive intra-Orthodox . . . .

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Well brothers and sisters, I think I have found a book that I hope, Lord willing, to read again and again for the rest of my life during Great Lent. This little book is a masterpiece, full of the humbling and healing wisdom of Jesus and the Great Tradition. 10/10

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In the Gospel of John there is no transfiguration narrative because the whole Gospel is the story of transfiguration. There is no baptismal narrative because the whole Gospel is a baptismal story. There’s no exorcism because the whole Gospel is a casting out & defeat of the Satan

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“Lord, I want to love those whom You give me to love — not for my sake, as my sinful nature desires, but for their sake & for their sake alone, as You love Your creation. Grant me this love, teach me to love — to love, not myself in others, but others in myself.” ~ Fr S. Bulgakov

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9 months

“..no human heart will persevere in its hardness, but will melt & will be transfigured by ..love. ‘Beauty will save the world’ (Dostoevsky, The Idiot) — but this will be the beauty of Holiness.” ~ Fr. Sergius Bulgakov — followed by the best footnote I think I’ve ever read:

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@mzw_13

6 months

“Only deification [apocatastasis] is capable of justifying creation. It is the only theodicy.” ~ Fr Sergius Bulgakov, The Bride of the Lamb, 501 This saying must be true & therefore worthy of the full acceptance of the Orthodox Church, right?

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@mzw_13

2 years

Do not be content simply with knowing and seeking: for most essential for the understanding of divine things is prayer.” ~ Origen of Alexandria (in his letter to his student, St Gregory Thaumaturgus)

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4 years

@realStanVG As someone who tries to follow Jesus this tweet makes me so sad. Not just because this is the way the world views the Church, but because this is the way the world sees *Jesus — as really not all that different. And this really is the fault of the Church. Still: Jesus is KING.

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