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1 I Believe,12| from death into life" (John 11:26, 5:24).~
2 I Believe,15| handkerchiefs" and "aprons" (Acts19:12).~
3 I Believe,10| unprofitable servants" (Luke 17:10). Without Jesus Christ,
4 I Believe,7 | but Thine be done" (Luke 22:42).~
5 I Believe,12| body" of the Church (Eph. 5:23). I believe that we are
6 I Believe,20| Devil and his angels" (Matt. 25:41). This is attested to
7 I Believe,12| death into life" (John 11:26, 5:24).~
8 I Believe,18| with His promise (Matt. 28:20); therefore, since He
9 I Believe,20| be made perfect" (Heb. 14:40). Therefore, all the saints
10 I Believe,20| and his angels" (Matt. 25:41). This is attested to in
11 I Believe,7 | Thine be done" (Luke 22:42).~
12 I Believe,3 | remaining shut" (Ezekiel 44:2). ~
13 I Believe,1 | seen the Father" (John6:46). In addition, Acts Four,
14 I Believe,10| a menstrual rag" (Isaiah 64:6). The fulfillment of the
15 I Believe,12| thou shalt live" (Gen. 20:7). I believe that my worship
16 I Believe,15| the Holy Spirit (I Cor. 6:9), participate in and are
17 I Believe,12| of the Lord appeared to Abimelich and counseled him to seek
18 | about
19 I Believe,18| therefore, since He is not absent, He does not require a "
20 I Believe,10| Since faith is neither abstract nor sterile, it is impossible
21 I Believe,10| in Jesus Christ is not an abstraction but rather a communion with
22 I Believe,11| After Her free and conscious acceptance of the plan of salvation
23 I Believe,11| represented all humanity when she accepted the salvation offered Her
24 I Believe,18| Spirit directs the Church and accomplishes that incomprehensible identification
25 I Believe,13| venerate holy icons in perfect accord with the second commandment
26 I Believe,14| their relation to Him and on account of Him. This has always
27 I Believe,16| Tradition," I do not mean an accumulation of human customs and practices
28 I Believe,12| Body of Christ, who have achieved great sanctity and perfection.
29 I Believe,15| Holy Spirit. Thus, God can act through the holy relics
30 I Believe,15| handkerchiefs" and "aprons" (Acts19:12).~
31 I Believe,16| practices that have been added to the Church. According
32 I Believe,1 | the Father" (John6:46). In addition, Acts Four, Five and Six
33 I Believe,19| profession of Faith from Her administration. By the same token, the
34 I Believe,4 | the moment of the glorious Advent of our Saviour Jesus Christ
35 I Believe,14| Church, as though it were an afterthought. I believe and I confess
36 | against
37 I Believe,1 | genuine and I confess, in agreement with Scripture, that God
38 I Believe,5 | succeeds in realizing the aim of his existence. The angles
39 I Believe,18| of Rome, nor the Pope of Alexandria, for that matter, ever so
40 I Believe,7 | with the possibility of alienating itself. If He had created
41 I Believe,16| Scriptures, whether they be allegorical, literalistic, or otherwise.
42 I Believe,1 | Angel of Great Counsel, the Ancient of Days) Who revealed Himself
43 I Believe,11| grace, surpass even the angelic state, and so we praise
44 I Believe,5 | aim of his existence. The angles are humble, they are instructed
45 I Believe,8 | found Her on the day of the Annunciation, because She also, like
46 | anything
47 I Believe,1 | incarnate. In the theophanies (appearances of God) of the Old Testament,
48 I Believe,20| know that a Day has been appointed when Hell shall commence.
49 I Believe,16| languages have also been approved by the Church and are extensively
50 I Believe,15| Apostles' "handkerchiefs" and "aprons" (Acts19:12).~
51 I Believe,18| The titles "patriarch," "archbishop," "metropolitan," and so
52 I Believe,3 | birth. Even as Jesus Christ arose from the dead despite the
53 I Believe,20| Jesus, Thou Son of God? Art Thou come hither to torment
54 I Believe,9 | to man; likewise, man can attain nothing by his own efforts
55 I Believe,5 | Creator; they pray for us and attend to our prayers. All beings
56 I Believe,20| Matt. 25:41). This is attested to in the Gospels by the
57 I Believe,12| servants, as the Holy Scripture attests in many places. I believe
58 I Believe,9 | him in spite of himself as Augustine of Hippo's and John Calvin'
59 I Believe,20| of a righteous man shall avail much," but rather, "availeth
60 I Believe,7 | for temptations, I must avoid them, and for the sake of
61 I Believe,20| perfect" and everlasting Hell awaits the sinners), for, in his
62 I Believe,17| neither ignorance, nor lack of awareness, or even the best intentions,
63 I Believe,8 | Book II, chap. 30). Man's bad choice and ill use of his
64 I Believe,20| clothed, if possible, in my Baptismal tunic and be buried in the
65 I Believe,11| was restored to its former beauty, and now it partakes of
66 | becomes
67 | becoming
68 | beforehand
69 I Believe,3 | Christ was, in His Godhead, begotten of the Father outside of
70 I Believe,12| ministry of interceding on our behalf. I supplicate them and I
71 I Believe,4 | the promise of the Lord: "Behold, I make all things new" (
72 I Believe,5 | instructed by the Church, they belong to the Church and celebrate
73 I Believe,12| for Abraham's sake, Thy beloved, for Isaac's sake, Thy servant,
74 I Believe,20| sake of the dead have a beneficial effect on the souls of the
75 I Believe,20| that are in darkness are benefited by our prayers and fasts.
76 I Believe,7 | for the sake of humility, beseech God to spare me from them,
77 | besides
78 I Believe,17| of awareness, or even the best intentions, can excuse one
79 I Believe,8 | it has received only the betrothal of the Divine adoption which
80 I Believe,6 | the moment of the latter's biological death that it might be reunited
81 I Believe,18| expressed by the harmony of Her bishops, by Her common Faith, common
82 I Believe,16| a whole, and not choose bits and parts according to our
83 I Believe,7 | its cause. Neither is God blameworthy because He created man's
84 I Believe,16| Acts 8). I denounce as blasphemous every attempt to correct,
85 I Believe,7 | proof of His love, as a blessing in disguise and without
86 I Believe,3 | She truly gave of Her own blood and of Her own flesh to
87 I Believe,7 | evil so as to make roses bloom forth from the thorns, although
88 I Believe,15| resurrected by touching the bones of the Prophet Elisseus (
89 I Believe,8 | Exposition of the Orthodox Faith, Book II, chap. 30). Man's bad
90 I Believe,8 | Most Holy Virgin Mary was born with the same nature as
91 I Believe,1 | Only-begotten Son, Who is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared
92 I Believe,17| Heaven? According to His boundless mercy and righteousness
93 I Believe,10| us. We must thank Him by bowing down before the mystery
94 I Believe,10| degree—cannot save a man and bring him to eternal life. The
95 I Believe,11| O marvelous fall that brought about such a salvation for
96 I Believe,20| my Baptismal tunic and be buried in the earth from which
97 I Believe,3 | after the image of the bush that burned and was not
98 I Believe,9 | Augustine of Hippo's and John Calvin's doctrine of predestination
99 I Believe,16| Church, even as the eunuch of Candice could not understand the
100 I Believe,16| competent to establish the Canon of the Holy Scriptures since
101 I Believe,19| make relevant" Orthodoxy's canonical rules or liturgical texts.~
102 I Believe,8 | mortal nor immortal, but capable of choosing between two
103 I Believe,17| believe with St. Cyprian of Carthage that the man who does not
104 I Believe,18| Infallibility is an attribute of the Catholicity of the Church of Christ,
105 I Believe,7 | wisdom how to transform the causes of evil into that which
106 I Believe,3 | the virginity of Mary or causing Her the travail of birth.
107 I Believe,5 | belong to the Church and celebrate with us in glorifying the
108 I Believe,12| given" him (ICor.1:4). In celebrating the feast of a saint, it
109 I Believe,14| icons, being shadows of celestial realities, sanctify us. ~
110 I Believe,18| considered in the early centuries before the rise of Papal
111 I Believe,18| especially from the ninth century on. The titles "patriarch," "
112 I Believe,17| intentions can lead us with certainty into the Kingdom of Heaven?
113 I Believe,8 | Orthodox Faith, Book II, chap. 30). Man's bad choice and
114 I Believe,11| More honourable than the Cherubim and beyond compare more
115 I Believe,12| upon us because we are the children of our Fathers, who were
116 I Believe,16| accept it as a whole, and not choose bits and parts according
117 I Believe,8 | immortal, but capable of choosing between two states, as St.
118 I Believe,19| primary and what secondary. A Christian's moral life cannot be dissociated
119 I Believe,14| and an integral part of Christianity; thus there is no question
120 I Believe,16| God and that, as St. John Chrysostom says, "It is impossible
121 I Believe,17| and heretical assemblies ("churches") are not workshops of salvation;
122 I Believe,19| reason the right to make clear distinctions between what
123 I Believe,17| permit them to function as clergymen. ~
124 I Believe,20| my Will that my body be clothed, if possible, in my Baptismal
125 I Believe,4 | believe that matter is not co-eternal with the Creator, and there
126 I Believe,10| foreknowledge and His disposition to co-operate with man's free will. If
127 I Believe,9 | synergetic; that is, man co-operates in the work of his salvation.
128 I Believe,9 | cannot accomplish his part of co-operation in his salvation by his
129 I Believe,7 | fashion, we too should be His co-workers in His creation and be responsible
130 I Believe,7 | created them. When suffering comes upon me, I must receive
131 I Believe,20| creation of the world was commemorated by the Sabbath day of rest.
132 I Believe,20| appointed when Hell shall commence. I do not believe in "purgatory,"
133 I Believe,20| of their bodies and the commencement of Paradise in its perfect
134 I Believe,11| the Cherubim and beyond compare more glorious than the Seraphim."
135 I Believe,16| that Tradition alone is competent to establish the Canon of
136 I Believe,18| exterior legality of its composition (since this factor does
137 I Believe,17| The Apostle forbids us to concern ourselves with the judgements
138 I Believe,7 | free will, by this imposed condition He would have rendered the
139 I Believe,18| fulfilling the exterior conditions of ecumenicity, were nonetheless
140 I Believe,14| Ecumenical Council says) while confessing that only the Most Holy
141 I Believe,19| piety and his doctrinal confession of faith. I denounce as
142 I Believe,18| Councils," says St. Maximus the Confessor. There is no "pope," superior
143 I Believe,18| professes. "Truth (i.e. conformity to the Apostolic Tradition)
144 I Believe,2 | the Holy Spirit. I do not confuse the persons of the Most
145 I Believe,18| them, but rather it is the conscience of the Church, which, being
146 I Believe,14| believe that icons are a consequence of and a witness to the
147 I Believe,7 | salvation. Thus God uses the consequences of evil so as to make roses
148 I Believe,18| for that matter, ever so considered in the early centuries before
149 I Believe,2 | One, Holy, Indivisible, Consubstantial, Life-Creating and Most
150 I Believe,12| worshipped, the saint's contest and victory being the occasion
151 I Believe,9 | salvation except in the context of Divine Grace, for salvation
152 I Believe,16| blasphemous every attempt to correct, re-adapt or "de-mythologize "
153 I Believe,16| trying to comprehend the correspondence between two members of the
154 I Believe,1 | Sabaoth, the Angel of Great Counsel, the Ancient of Days) Who
155 I Believe,12| appeared to Abimelich and counseled him to seek Abraham's prayers,
156 I Believe,1 | compared to their human counterparts. God's love is a love that
157 I Believe,11| the power of the Most High covered Her, and "at the voice of
158 I Believe,20| not permit my body to be cremated, but shall specify in my
159 I Believe,20| our Saviour, the demons cried out, "What have we to do
160 I Believe,18| the Church. The Church's criterion, according to St. Vincent
161 I Believe,14| of the Apostle Peter once cured the sick—as it is related
162 I Believe,10| of faith is the "lack of curiosity." It is neither works nor
163 I Believe,20| left, "Depart from Me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire,
164 I Believe,14| is no question of a human custom or doctrine having been
165 I Believe,16| an accumulation of human customs and practices that have
166 I Believe,17| Body. I believe with St. Cyprian of Carthage that the man
167 I Believe,8 | two states, as St. John of Damascus teaches us (Exposition of
168 I Believe,12| Israel's, Thy holy one" (Dan 3:34). Those whom God has
169 I Believe,1 | upon Him even the Seraphim dare not gaze. ~I believe and
170 I Believe,5 | against Him and, becoming darkened and wicked, fell from God
171 I Believe,20| even the souls that are in darkness are benefited by our prayers
172 I Believe,1 | Counsel, the Ancient of Days) Who revealed Himself to
173 I Believe,18| attribute of a single person or, de facto, of a hierarchical
174 I Believe,16| to correct, re-adapt or "de-mythologize "the sacred texts of the
175 I Believe,17| mercy and righteousness God deals with those who are outside
176 I Believe,13| second commandment of the Decalogue [Ten Commandments] and not
177 I Believe,16| since only Tradition can declare what belongs to it and what
178 I Believe,1 | bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him," (John 1:18) and "Not
179 I Believe,20| complete sense, as St. Paul declares in the Acts of the Apostles, "
180 I Believe,14| holy icons are not only decorative and didactic objects which
181 I Believe,8 | caused his nature to be defiled by sin and become mortal.
182 I Believe,8 | become mortal. Human nature's defilement and alienation from God
183 I Believe,14| relative worship" (as the definition of the Seventh Ecumenical
184 I Believe,17| us, under the penalty of defrockment and excommunication, to
185 I Believe,7 | not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. "Yet,
186 I Believe,18| witness to what has been delivered by the Church at every time,
187 I Believe,10| Law does not permit us to demand or to merit something from
188 I Believe,20| miracle of the healing of the demoniac who lived in the district
189 I Believe,9 | of the commandments only demonstrate his will and resolve to
190 I Believe,18| metropolitan," and so forth, do not denote a difference of episcopal
191 I Believe,20| and the sinners who are departed now enjoy a foretaste of
192 I Believe,20| the Church. Insofar as it depends upon my own wish, I shall
193 I Believe,13| Indepictable One became depictable for my salvation. As the
194 I Believe,1 | Therefore, God the Father is not depicted in the holy icons. ~I believe
195 I Believe,20| despoiled by our Saviour by His descent thither and by His Resurrection,
196 I Believe,13| I confess the relatively describable and absolutely historical
197 I Believe,7 | thorns, although He never desired the thorns, nor did He create
198 I Believe,9 | For this reason, without despising man's role, we say that
199 I Believe,20| yet commenced. Hades was despoiled by our Saviour by His descent
200 I Believe,3 | the virginal womb without destroying the virginity of Mary or
201 I Believe,5 | seek his ruin and utter destruction. They have no real power
202 I Believe,19| revelation, and that the details of the Church's life bear
203 I Believe,10| insofar as they test his devotion and faith in God. Our faith
204 I Believe,14| not only decorative and didactic objects which are found
205 I Believe,5 | principle. Even as men on earth differ according to what gift each
206 I Believe,18| so forth, do not denote a difference of episcopal grace. The
207 I Believe,5 | to other laws and other dimensions foreign to human nature.
208 I Believe,19| disciplinary canons are a direct reflection of Her Faith
209 I Believe,14| The worship of the icon is directed to the prototype." Not to
210 I Believe,3 | entered into the midst of His disciples while the doors were shut,
211 I Believe,7 | His love, as a blessing in disguise and without feeling indignant,
212 I Believe,9 | Who gives to all men and disregards none." For this reason,
213 I Believe,19| contrary to Tradition the dissociation of the Church's profession
214 I Believe,11| doctrine that endeavors to distort the position of the Theotokos,
215 I Believe,20| demoniac who lived in the district of the Gadarenes. For, at
216 I Believe,3 | is without mother in His divinity, and without father in His
217 I Believe,19| dissociated from his piety and his doctrinal confession of faith. I denounce
218 I Believe,11| Seraphim." I reject all the doctrines, which are alien to the
219 I Believe,7 | having the possibility of doing otherwise, since it would
220 | done
221 I Believe,3 | His disciples while the doors were shut, so also did He
222 I Believe,4 | matter was created good but drawn into sin and corruption
223 I Believe,20| the wicked. This is not due to God's love but to their
224 I Believe,4 | and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness" (II Peter
225 I Believe,14| their icons only because He dwells in them. Thus, the creatures
226 I Believe,18| ever so considered in the early centuries before the rise
227 I Believe,18| the exterior conditions of ecumenicity, were nonetheless rejected
228 I Believe,20| the dead have a beneficial effect on the souls of the dead
229 I Believe,20| Epistle, did not say "the effectual prayer of a righteous man
230 I Believe,20| the saints are nonetheless efficacious even now, for St. James
231 I Believe,5 | principle and not on an egalitarian principle. Even as men on
232 I Believe,20| when I observe Sunday, the eighth day, the day which prefigures
233 I Believe,15| the bones of the Prophet Elisseus (II Kings 13:21). Therefore,
234 I Believe,3 | undefiled after giving birth to Emmanuel. She is the gate proclaimed
235 I Believe,1 | or intellect. God has no "emotions" which might create passion,
236 I Believe,8 | from the effects of sin and enables us to "work" for our salvation.
237 I Believe,15| participate in and are endued with this totally sanctifying
238 I Believe,10| works, but Jesus Christ enjoins us that when we have fulfilled
239 I Believe,20| sinners who are departed now enjoy a foretaste of their final
240 I Believe,9 | and that to approach and enter the Church is according
241 I Believe,20| each man shall receive the entirety of what he deserves only
242 I Believe,9 | part may be, and he must entreat God to grant him the strength
243 I Believe,12| Him Who glorifies them, I entrust myself to their prayers
244 I Believe,5 | into demons. The demons are envious of man because of the glory
245 I Believe,5 | communion with God, know no envy and are not jealous of man'
246 I Believe,18| not denote a difference of episcopal grace. The unity of the
247 I Believe,16| and oral Traditions are of equal value; for it is not the
248 I Believe,10| goodness of God Whose reasons escape us. We must thank Him by
249 I Believe,18| rise of Papal pretensions, especially from the ninth century on.
250 I Believe,16| Tradition alone is competent to establish the Canon of the Holy Scriptures
251 I Believe,4 | because of man, who was established initially as the ruler of
252 I Believe,20| the body. I believe in the establishment of the Kingdom of His righteousness.
253 I Believe,10| works of the Law, we should esteem ourselves as nothing but "
254 I Believe,18| Lord Jesus, and the Holy Eucharist, and the assembly of the
255 I Believe,16| the Church, even as the eunuch of Candice could not understand
256 I Believe,11| through the Theotokos, the New Eve. The nature of fallen man,
257 I Believe,4 | s will in using creation evilly can sin be joined to creation.
258 I Believe,17| philosophical or historical evolution, or the fruit of human reason
259 I Believe,20| Church, however, are reserved exclusively for those who have reposed
260 I Believe,17| penalty of defrockment and excommunication, to permit them to function
261 I Believe,9 | by the word "worthy" the exercise of our freedom of will to
262 I Believe,20| import and more real than the existing creation which yet bears
263 I Believe,7 | offend God, nor does God experience any satisfaction at the
264 I Believe,20| which resents this love and experiences it as a torment. I believe
265 I Believe,8 | of Damascus teaches us (Exposition of the Orthodox Faith, Book
266 I Believe,18| of the Orthodox Church is expressed by the harmony of Her bishops,
267 I Believe,16| meaning, the sense of their expression and their content for the
268 I Believe,16| approved by the Church and are extensively used. I acknowledge that
269 I Believe,13| we have seen Him with our eyes, we have looked upon Him
270 I Believe,3 | from the dead despite the fact that the Jews had sealed
271 I Believe,18| of a single person or, de facto, of a hierarchical assembly.
272 I Believe,18| composition (since this factor does not oblige the Holy
273 I Believe,10| work, his talents and his faculties matter but little. They
274 I Believe,5 | perfectly free, having the faculty of will and choice. Some
275 I Believe,11| the New Eve. The nature of fallen man, the nature of Adam,
276 I Believe,13| to His nature; it will be false, unreal, an idol. But when
277 I Believe,16| two members of the same family. The Holy Scriptures lose
278 I Believe,7 | God wished that, after a fashion, we too should be His co-workers
279 I Believe,5 | wisdom, will, and love are fashioned on a hierarchical principle
280 I Believe,10| grants it, not because of a fatalistic predestination, but because
281 I Believe,10| we should attribute this favor to the goodness of God Whose
282 I Believe,12| 1:4). In celebrating the feast of a saint, it is God Who
283 I Believe,3 | Incarnate Word and that She fed Him with Her own milk.~I
284 I Believe,7 | in disguise and without feeling indignant, I must seek out
285 I Believe,5 | becoming darkened and wicked, fell from God and turned into
286 I Believe,10| and our faith becomes a fertile reality which engenders
287 I Believe,12| Youths who prayed in the fiery furnace attest: "Cause not
288 I Believe,10| with Him. This communion fills us with the power of the
289 I Believe,1 | In addition, Acts Four, Five and Six of the Seventh Ecumenical
290 I Believe,18| the visible head) and his flock (the visible body) constitute
291 I Believe,16| Moveover, I confess that the "foolishness of preaching" (I Cor. 1:
292 I Believe,17| the Church. The Apostle forbids us to concern ourselves
293 I Believe,10| but because of His Divine foreknowledge and His disposition to co-operate
294 I Believe,20| are departed now enjoy a foretaste of their final destiny,
295 | former
296 | formerly
297 I Believe,17| virginity of heretics is fornication." Outside of the Church
298 I Believe,1 | John6:46). In addition, Acts Four, Five and Six of the Seventh
299 I Believe,20| I do not transgress the Fourth Commandment when I observe
300 I Believe,17| receive nourishment of its fruits, although the planting remains
301 I Believe,18| been councils which, though fulfilling the exterior conditions
302 I Believe,10| rag" (Isaiah 64:6). The fulfillment of the works of the Law
303 I Believe,20| yet partake of their glory fully, the intercessions of the
304 I Believe,17| excommunication, to permit them to function as clergymen. ~
305 I Believe,12| who prayed in the fiery furnace attest: "Cause not Thy mercy
306 I Believe,16| been transmitted to us. Furthermore, the teaching of the Old
307 I Believe,20| lived in the district of the Gadarenes. For, at the approach of
308 I Believe,14| but Christ liveth in me." (Gal. 2:20). I believe that icons
309 I Believe,7 | as did the Saviour in the garden of Gethsemane: "Not My will,
310 I Believe,3 | to Emmanuel. She is the gate proclaimed by the Prophet
311 I Believe,12| and is withered; and men gather them and cast them into
312 I Believe,3 | and confess that She truly gave of Her own blood and of
313 I Believe,1 | even the Seraphim dare not gaze. ~I believe and confess
314 I Believe,12| thee and thou shalt live" (Gen. 20:7). I believe that my
315 I Believe,1 | reason, this love is real and genuine and I confess, in agreement
316 I Believe,7 | Saviour in the garden of Gethsemane: "Not My will, but Thine
317 I Believe,12| sake that I worship them. I give adoration to no created
318 I Believe,3 | Virgin remain undefiled after giving birth to Emmanuel. She is
319 I Believe,12| glorify. Because of Him Who glorifies them, I entrust myself to
320 I Believe,5 | and celebrate with us in glorifying the Creator; they pray for
321 I Believe,14| the cause and the final goal of all things, deserves
322 I Believe,12| adoption, they shall be called gods (John 10:34-35). God Himself
323 I Believe,9 | and he must entreat God to grant him the strength and grace
324 I Believe,10| those who desire it, God grants it, not because of a fatalistic
325 I Believe,20| the body is still in the grave, both the reward and the
326 I Believe,20| Jesus Christ, which is of greater import and more real than
327 I Believe,16| the New Testament) and the Greek text of the New Testament.
328 I Believe,11| could become God." Thus St. Gregory the Theologian writes: "
329 I Believe,18| invent symbols of faith, but, guided by the Holy Spirit, bear
330 I Believe,13| Himself, to sit at the right hand of the Father in the Heavens.
331 I Believe,15| touching the Apostles' "handkerchiefs" and "aprons" (Acts19:12).~
332 I Believe,13| looked upon Him and have handled Him with our hands" (I John
333 I Believe,13| have handled Him with our hands" (I John 1:1). When I venerate
334 I Believe,18| Church is expressed by the harmony of Her bishops, by Her common
335 I Believe,15| see that the faithful were healed by touching the Apostles' "
336 I Believe,20| also, in the miracle of the healing of the demoniac who lived
337 I Believe,14| sanctifying, being the shadows of heavenly realities; and even as the
338 I Believe,20| should not be made perfect" (Heb. 14:40). Therefore, all
339 I Believe,20| for, in his Epistle to the Hebrews, St. Paul states, "and these
340 I Believe,5 | man's so that they might help man realize his purpose
341 | Herself
342 I Believe,11| and the power of the Most High covered Her, and "at the
343 I Believe,9 | himself as Augustine of Hippo's and John Calvin's doctrine
344 I Believe,20| Son of God? Art Thou come hither to torment us before the
345 I Believe,15| endowed with intrinsic holiness, as being vessels of grace.
346 I Believe,15| sentimental reason, nor do I honour them as merely historical
347 I Believe,11| Holy Virgin Mary, as: "More honourable than the Cherubim and beyond
348 I Believe,20| in the prophets, and have hope in God, which they themselves
349 I Believe,5 | The Spiritual Hosts~I believe that the angels
350 I Believe,11| to ours, represented all humanity when she accepted the salvation
351 I Believe,5 | existence. The angles are humble, they are instructed by
352 I Believe,7 | them, and for the sake of humility, beseech God to spare me
353 I Believe,2 | worship three persons—three hypostases—that of the Father, that
354 I Believe,7 | suffering nor evil. Evil has no hypostasis or existence as such. Evil
355 I Believe,1 | Trinity cannot be portrayed iconographically since He is without from
356 I Believe,12| God which is given" him (ICor.1:4). In celebrating the
357 I Believe,17| revelation. I reject the idea that the Church is a form
358 I Believe,18| accomplishes that incomprehensible identification in which our incarnate Lord
359 I Believe,13| will be false, unreal, an idol. But when the time was fulfilled,
360 I Believe,16| the Holy Spirit and the illumination of the Tradition of the
361 I Believe,3 | Holy Virgin Mary, after the image of the bush that burned
362 I Believe,11| concerning original sin and the "immaculate conception of Mary." Likewise,
363 I Believe,20| Christ, which is of greater import and more real than the existing
364 I Believe,19| the Church's life bear the imprint of the Holy Spirit. Hence,
365 I Believe,5 | ours, their spiritual and incorporeal nature is nonetheless real
366 I Believe,13| time was fulfilled, the Indepictable One became depictable for
367 I Believe,9 | those who are worthy of it" indicating by the word "worthy" the
368 I Believe,7 | disguise and without feeling indignant, I must seek out its significance.
369 I Believe,12| we cannot be saved by any individual relation with God outside
370 I Believe,2 | I worship the One, Holy, Indivisible, Consubstantial, Life-Creating
371 I Believe,1 | remains incomprehensible and inexplicable to human reason, this love
372 I Believe,13| indescribable, immaterial, inexpressible and unfathomable. Every
373 I Believe,18| professed from the beginning. Infallibility is an attribute of the Catholicity
374 I Believe,18| the Church, which, being infallible, does or does not recognize
375 I Believe,7 | destiny. God knows in His infinite wisdom how to transform
376 I Believe,17| fruit of human reason and ingenuity. The Church is instituted
377 I Believe,17| ignorance or error—even if it be inherited—can excuse one or that good
378 I Believe,4 | man, who was established initially as the ruler of the material
379 I Believe,11| surpasses Adam's state of innocence previous to the fall, since
380 I Believe,16| was written through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and
381 I Believe,16| that all the Scriptures are inspired by God and that, as St.
382 I Believe,17| such people. God did not institute schismatic and heretical
383 I Believe,5 | angles are humble, they are instructed by the Church, they belong
384 I Believe,7 | in order to use them as instruments. He permitted these things
385 I Believe,14| Incarnation of Our Saviour and an integral part of Christianity; thus
386 I Believe,1 | unfathomable to man's reason or intellect. God has no "emotions" which
387 I Believe,7 | have rendered the created intelligent being purely passive in
388 I Believe,12| saints their ministry of interceding on our behalf. I supplicate
389 I Believe,16| our private opinions or interpretations. The official versions and
390 I Believe,15| grace of God, endowed with intrinsic holiness, as being vessels
391 I Believe,12| s sake, Thy beloved, for Isaac's sake, Thy servant, and
392 I Believe,10| like unto a menstrual rag" (Isaiah 64:6). The fulfillment of
393 I Believe,5 | know no envy and are not jealous of man's destiny. Rather,
394 I Believe,3 | despite the fact that the Jews had sealed His tomb with
395 I Believe,1 | He hath seen the Father" (John6:46). In addition, Acts Four,
396 I Believe,4 | creation evilly can sin be joined to creation. I believe that
397 I Believe,20| Lord, when He shall come to judge the living and the dead,
398 I Believe,17| concern ourselves with the judgements of God concerning such people.
399 I Believe,18| the Apostolic Tradition) judges the Councils," says St.
400 I Believe,18| a prelate with universal jurisidiction over the Church, nor was
401 I Believe,1 | attributes such as paternity, justice, goodness cannot be compared
402 I Believe,16| that each interpretation be justified by the teachings of the
403 I Believe,17| intentions, can excuse one and justify him or her for salvation;
404 I Believe,9 | purchased. Man's labors and the keeping of the commandments only
405 I Believe,14| prostrating myself before them, by kissing them, by showing them a "
406 I Believe,1 | essence, Whose essence is known only to Himself, to His
407 I Believe,7 | own eternal destiny. God knows in His infinite wisdom how
408 I Believe,9 | cannot be purchased. Man's labors and the keeping of the commandments
409 I Believe,16| Translations into the various languages have also been approved
410 | latter
411 I Believe,5 | and is subject to other laws and other dimensions foreign
412 I Believe,20| shall say unto those on the left, "Depart from Me, ye cursed,
413 I Believe,10| and not because of their legalistic or disciplinary observance
414 I Believe,18| because of the exterior legality of its composition (since
415 I Believe,18| according to St. Vincent of Lerins, is the Church.~
416 I Believe,8 | Baptism in the true Church liberates us from the effects of sin
417 I Believe,5 | whereas others used their liberty in an evil manner and estranged
418 I Believe,4 | Even though the creation "lieth in evil" and corruption,
419 I Believe,2 | Indivisible, Consubstantial, Life-Creating and Most Holy Trinity. In
420 I Believe,1 | Father never became the likeness of any material form nor
421 I Believe,16| whether they be allegorical, literalistic, or otherwise. I confess
422 I Believe,19| Orthodoxy's canonical rules or liturgical texts.~
423 I Believe,14| longer live, but Christ liveth in me." (Gal. 2:20). I believe
424 I Believe,18| Christ. The Ecumenical and Local Councils do not invent symbols
425 I Believe,1 | Trinity (i.e., the Word or Logos, the Angel of the Lord,
426 I Believe,14| Apostle who said, "I no longer live, but Christ liveth
427 I Believe,20| of His righteousness. I look for the resurrection of
428 I Believe,13| Him with our eyes, we have looked upon Him and have handled
429 I Believe,16| family. The Holy Scriptures lose their meaning, the sense
430 I Believe,20| at the Last Judgment. God loves not only those who dwell
431 I Believe,11| man, created " a little lower than the angels" (Ps. 8:
432 I Believe,5 | angels, because of their loyalty and their communion with
433 I Believe,8 | could not of Herself have maintained the state in which the Archangel
434 I Believe,3 | and without father in His manhood.~I believe that through
435 | many
436 I Believe,8 | sufferings and also the marks of these sufferings were
437 I Believe,17| Fathers I confess that: "The martyrdom of heretics is suicide and
438 I Believe,11| the Theologian writes: "O marvelous fall that brought about
439 I Believe,2 | Spirit are, as it were, three masks of a single person. None
440 I Believe,11| voice of the Archangel, the Master of all became incarnate
441 I Believe,18| the Councils," says St. Maximus the Confessor. There is
442 I Believe,16| there are a plurality of meanings for each verse of the Bible,
443 I Believe,16| value; for it is not the means of transmission that saves
444 I Believe,8 | s Resurrection both the memory of His sufferings and also
445 I Believe,10| righteousness is like unto a menstrual rag" (Isaiah 64:6). The
446 I Believe,15| nor do I honour them as merely historical remains but acknowledge
447 I Believe,10| permit us to demand or to merit something from God. Not
448 I Believe,18| patriarch," "archbishop," "metropolitan," and so forth, do not denote
449 I Believe,3 | even as He entered into the midst of His disciples while the
450 I Believe,3 | She fed Him with Her own milk.~I confess that Jesus Christ
451 I Believe,17| wherein error and truth are mingled in different proportions
452 I Believe,20| the demons also, in the miracle of the healing of the demoniac
453 I Believe,19| secondary. A Christian's moral life cannot be dissociated
454 I Believe,16| and what is foreign to it. Moveover, I confess that the "foolishness
455 I Believe,16| Church, to Her life, to Her Mysteries and to Her Traditions, since
456 I Believe,5 | that the angels are not mythical but noetic beings created
457 I Believe,17| I believe that no other Name under heaven has been given
458 I Believe,13| Incarnation of God, before the Nativity of Jesus Christ, any representation
459 I Believe,10| Works~I believe that man is natural virtue—whatever its degree—
460 I Believe,3 | one person, yet having two natures. From His conception, He
461 I Believe,1 | need to be satisfied. He needs nothing. God's love cannot
462 I Believe,18| pretensions, especially from the ninth century on. The titles "
463 I Believe,5 | angels are not mythical but noetic beings created by God, that
464 I Believe,17| the Heavens. We receive nourishment of its fruits, although
465 I Believe,11| the Theologian writes: "O marvelous fall that brought
466 I Believe,14| decorative and didactic objects which are found in Church,
467 I Believe,18| since this factor does not oblige the Holy Spirit to speak
468 I Believe,10| legalistic or disciplinary observance of the Law. Faith is also
469 I Believe,20| Fourth Commandment when I observe Sunday, the eighth day,
470 I Believe,17| salvation; rather, they are obstacles created by the devil, wherein
471 I Believe,12| contest and victory being the occasion for God to be worshipped.
472 I Believe,1 | witness to His Son on several occasions solely by a voice that was
473 I Believe,7 | Himself on him—for man cannot offend God, nor does God experience
474 I Believe,16| or interpretations. The official versions and texts of the
475 | once
476 I Believe,1 | seen God at any time; the Only-begotten Son, Who is in the bosom
477 I Believe,16| according to our private opinions or interpretations. The
478 I Believe,16| Apostle Paul, the written and oral Traditions are of equal
479 I Believe,16| Testament were transmitted orally to God's people before they
480 I Believe,7 | nor did He create them in order to use them as instruments.
481 I Believe,11| the Fathers, concerning original sin and the "immaculate
482 I Believe,19| renovate," or "make relevant" Orthodoxy's canonical rules or liturgical
483 I Believe,11| by God, the Holy Spirit overshadowed Her and the power of the
484 I Believe,17| that they might work in parallel with the Church for the
485 I Believe,20| even though they do not yet partake of their glory fully, the
486 I Believe,11| former beauty, and now it partakes of the Divine nature. Man'
487 I Believe,15| Holy Spirit (I Cor. 6:9), participate in and are endued with this
488 I Believe,11| Jesus Christ, the New Adam, partook of our nature in all things
489 I Believe,16| and not choose bits and parts according to our private
490 I Believe,3 | were shut, so also did He pass through the virginal womb
491 I Believe,3 | remained untrodden after the passage of Israel, so also did the
492 I Believe,12| shall never die... but are passed from death into life" (John
493 I Believe,1 | emotions" which might create passion, suffering, need or necessity
494 I Believe,7 | intelligent being purely passive in nature; the creature
495 I Believe,1 | other attributes such as paternity, justice, goodness cannot
496 I Believe,9 | endeavors of human will, as Pelagius taught. Salvation is synergetic;
497 I Believe,17| they forbid us, under the penalty of defrockment and excommunication,
498 I Believe,9 | to accomplish it. If he perceives that he does not even wish
499 I Believe,7 | for our freedom. Thus God permits trials and sufferings without
500 I Believe,7 | them as instruments. He permitted these things to exist out
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