Anthony of Sourozh famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Unless we look at a person and see the beauty there is in this person, we can contribute nothing to him. One does not help a person by discerning what is wrong, what is ugly, what is distorted. Christ looked at everyone he met, at the prostitute, at the thief, and saw the beauty hidden there. Perhaps it was distorted, perhaps damaged, but it was beauty none the less, and what he did was to call out this beauty.
-- Anthony of Sourozh

#Spiritual #Thieves #Doe
It seems to me, and I am personally convinced, that the Church must never speak from a position of strength. [These are shocking words.] It ought not to be one of the forces influencing this or that state. The Church ought to be, if you will, just as powerless as God himself, which does not coerce but which calls and unveils the beauty and the truth of things without imposing them. As soon as the Church begins to exercise power, it loses its most profound characteristic which is divine love [i.e.] the understanding of those it is called to save and not to smash...
-- Anthony of Sourozh

#Spiritual #Exercise #Profound
We prepare the ground for our prayer when we shed something which is not Christ's, which is unworthy of him, and only the prayer of one who can, like St. Paul say, 'I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me,' is real Christian prayer.
-- Anthony of Sourozh

#Christian #Spiritual #Prayer
You remember how you were taught to write. Your mother put a pencil in your hand, took your hand in hers, and began to move it. Since you did not know at all what she meant to do, you left your hand completely free in hers. This is like the power of God in our lives.
-- Anthony of Sourozh

#Mother #Spiritual #Moving
Humility is the situation of the earth. It's there silent and accepting everything and in a miraculous way making out of all the refuse new richness...transforming corruption itself into a power of life and a new possibility of creativeness, open to the sunshine, open to the rain, ready to receive any seed we sow and capable of bringing thirtyfold, sixtyfold, a hundredfold out of every seed.
-- Anthony of Sourozh

#Rain #Humility #Sunshine
It is not the constant thought of their sins, but the vision of the holiness of God that makes the saints aware of their own sinfulness.
-- Anthony of Sourozh

#Vision #Saint #Holiness
A prayer makes sense only if it is lived.
-- Anthony of Sourozh

#Prayer #Make Sense #Ifs

If after accepting the spiritual master and being initiated one does not follow the rules and regulations of devotional service, then he is again fallen.
It is imperative that one approaches a spiritual master, for by such association one proportionately develops his consciousness towards the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
This chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra is enacted from the spiritual platform and thus this sound vibration surpasses all lower strata of consciouness - namely sensual, mental and intellectual.
The highest summit of spiritual perfection is knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Whoever you are, be that person with all your might. Time goes by faster than we thought. It is a thief so quiet. You must let yourself be loved and you must love, parts of you that never loved must open and love. You must announce yourself in all particulars so you can have yourself.
Sala-manda-stron, look out here we come, A thief a warrior and a mole. Though the quest may take its toll, We'll march until we reach our goal,
God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
Every living creature is the son of the supreme Lord, and He does not tolerate even ants being killed
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
Oh, wonderful. I killed his father. He hates me. He knows how to make bombs. Come on, Wedge, how does this story end?

Anthony of Sourozh famous quotes

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