My wife and I have been on a "mission" to clear out alot of paperwork/odds n ends, that we have been keeping here and there.
As I was clearing out the paperwork I came across these misc. quotes and sadly do not have who wrote/spoke them. I had written them down because they spoke to me.
It is those who are in the Church now that demonstrate the actual nature and condition of the contemporary Church and not those men and women pictured on the panels of the iconostasis and walls of the Church.
We Orthodox like to live on the spiritual laurels of the past. However the holiness of the Church on earth must be judged by the holiness of its contemporary members.
The spread of Orthodoxy to the western hemisphere is an accident of immigration - not the harvest of Orthodox missionary effort.
Through the prayers of our holy fathers, Lord Jesus Christ our God, have mercy upon us and save us!