Quotations about Orthodoxy

“You have heard that it was said, * ‘You shall not commit adultery;’* but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart. If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna. If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna. “It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’* but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery. “Again you have heard that it was said to them of old time, ‘You shall not make false vows, but shall perform to the Lord your vows,’ but I tell you, don’t swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God; nor by the earth, for it is the footstool of his feet; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. Neither shall you swear by your head, for you can’t make one hair white or black. But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No.’ Whatever is more than these is of the evil one. “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’* But I tell you, don’t resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also. If anyone sues you to take away your coat, let him have your cloak also. Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two. Give to him who asks you, and don’t turn away him who desires to borrow from you. “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor,* and hate your enemy.*’ But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you, that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven.

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	Quotations about Orthodoxy

The age of casual Catholicism is over, the age of heroic Catholicism has begun. We can no longer be Catholics by accident but instead we must be Catholics by conviction.

Fr. Terrence Henry, TOR, Franciscan University of Steubenville

The difficulty of explaining "why I am a Catholic" is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.

G.K.Chesterton

No orthodox bishop, who separated from Rome, can be considered orthodox, despite the purity of his faith. For acquiescence of schism in the Church means sinning against Christ, because the Church is the Body of Christ: "The universe of peoples judges with confidence, that he who separates himself from the unity of peoples is not good."

Saint Ambrose of Milan

The truth is that without Rome there will be no unity.

Stanislaw Ignacy

Lawlessness breeds lawlessness! He who sows schism reaps schism. Such is the law of God.

Stanislaw Ignacy

Eastern Church will be splitting forever, until it unites with the Universal Church.

Stanislaw Ignacy

Orthodox and Catholic Churches are two hands of the single Body.

Author Unknown

No Orthodox bishop, separated from Rome, can not be considered orthodox, despite the purity of their faith. For admission schism in the Church is to sin against Christ, because the Church is the Body of Christ: "The universe is safe to judge the nations, that is good is separated from the consent of the people."

St. Amvrosiy Mediolansky

All the limits of the universe and everywhere on earth, undefiled and orthodox followers of the Lord, as the sun of eternal light constantly look to the holy church of the Romans, her confession and faith, taking from it a sparkling shine of the Fathers and of the holy tenets ... For from the beginning of the descent to the incarnate Word of God to us, all Christian churches everywhere have accepted and are subject to the greatest among them the Church of Rome, as a single stronghold, and the base, as forever irresistible promise of the Savior on the gates of Hell, which has the keys of the Orthodox faith in Him.

St. Maksim Ispovednik