“What the ear hears, the mind forgets. But what the heart hears, time can never erase.” – Orthodox Prayer Life (P. 10)

“The world now thirsts to see living faith in the person of Jesus Christ; not simply to hear about it, but to live is. So many books tell about Christ; so many preachers speak about Christ; but so few people live and speak with Christ.” – Orthodox Prayer Life (P. 13)

“Prayer, as a glorifying of the Creator, transcends the limits of our shortcomings and unworthiness. It is a perfect action by itself able to make up for every imperfection and to heal every disability.” – Orthodox Prayer Life (P. 23)

In Referance to the Isrealites crossing the Red Sea: “…those who cross the water must drag nothing of the enemy’s army with them once they hav emerged from it.  For if the enemy should emerge with them, they will remain in slavery even after the waters, for they will then have brought out with them the tyrant whom they should have drowned in the sea. The meaning is that all those who pass through the mystical waters of baptism must kell in these waters the entire host of sins which make war on them, such as avarice, impure desires, the spirit of greed, feelings of vanity and pride, irascible feelings, ander wrath, jealousy, envy and the like.” – From Glory to Glory (Gregory of Nyssa)