Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.

  • It is not "forgive and forget" as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but "forgive and go forward," building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.

  • The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.

  • Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.

  • Warning: we may become so enamored with God's good gifts that we fail to worship the Giver.

  • The experience you’ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it.

  • You always have to make positive choices as an actor, even when you're playing someone who may not be doing the best things.

  • A dim consciousness of infinite mystery and grandeur lies beneath all the commonplace of life . There is an awfulness and a majesty around us, in all our little worldliness .

  • I love the majesty of human suffering.

  • Our Sovereign's Health, the Majesty of the People.