Chapter, Paragraph
1 Fwd,1| search for the fullness of truth along the highways and byways
2 Fwd,1| paths where one encounters truth in varying degrees, plus
3 Fwd,1| depository of Apostolic Christian Truth, and a Church that until
4 Fwd,3| symbol of light, good and truth, while the left is the symbol
5 Fwd,3| offended when, for the sake of truth, contrasts are made between
6 Fwd,3| fullness of God's grace and truth. Orthodoxy offers that faith
7 Fwd,6| are sincere seekers of the truth.~ Readers of this book,
8 Fwd,6| Psalm 103:12), so far is the Truth of Eastern Orthodox Christianity
9 1,1 | result of the quest for truth there occurred divisions
10 1,1 | which war against Orthodox Truth have appeared and do appear
11 1,1 | faiths, ecumenism equates truth with falsehood and promotes
12 1,1 | relativization of God's Truth. As a Greek bishop notes,
13 1,1 | Councils, Satan denies the truth that the Savior founded
14 2,5 | tormented and killed for the truth of Christ's Holy Church,
15 2,6 | would be guided into all Truth by the Holy Spirit (Jn 16:
16 2,12| Arius, which denied the truth that “in Him [Christ] dwelleth
17 2,14| should stand firm in the pure truth.” [Orthodox Dogmatic Theology,
18 2,16| has always known to be the truth [Bible, Church, Tradition:
19 2,20| represent the voice of Truth, for the Church is “the
20 2,20| pillar and ground of the Truth” (1 Tim 3:15), and the Church
21 2,20| sent” (Jn 17:3). God is Truth (Jn 14:6), and one must
22 2,20| worship Him “in spirit and in truth” (Jn 4:23-24). Every falsehood
23 2,20| falsehood is contrary to truth, and a person who has a
24 2,20| renouncing the Church's Truth through the acceptance of
25 2,20| Church's divinely revealed Truth. Heresies are dangerous
26 2,20| he begins with a shred of truth, labels it “Christian,”
27 2,20| presents them with just enough truth to entice them to follow
28 2,20| All heresies twist the truth of the revelation of the
29 2,22| most divine grace” [The Truth of Our Faith, p. 48].~ ~
30 2,26| Ecumenical Councils defended the truth that Christ is fully God
31 2,33| Council went on to affirm the truth that Christ is “of one essence” (
32 2,35| until authentic Christian truth was restored and confirmed
33 2,35| those which express Orthodox truth — are accepted by the Church'
34 2,35| Holy Trinity. The doctrinal truth proclaiming the dyophysite
35 2,36| Spirit to guide the Church in truth and to protect it against
36 4,12| contains and professes the same truth as the Gospels and therefore,
37 4,12| to remind people of its truth, aims and values, and also
38 4,17| is an undoubted sign of truth. The Holy Fathers stood
39 4,17| Holy Fathers stood for the truth, fearing neither threats
40 4,18| the Great expresses this truth when he states that “that
41 5,2 | shortcomings, leading them to the truth?~ The bishops who attended
42 5,2 | deficiencies and led them to the truth.~ ~
43 5,4 | Christians believed and lived in truth, and lived in readiness
44 6,14| rendered claims of absolute truth ludicrous in the eyes of
45 6,16| whatsoever in seeking the truth concerning purgatory. Their
46 6,16| off from the fullness of Truth and from the only source
47 6,16| far from the fullness of Truth, that it now possesses “
48 7,9 | pillar and ground of the Truth” (1 Tim 3:15).~The testimony
49 7,9 | precisely the difference between truth and error; but the Truth
50 7,9 | truth and error; but the Truth is never altered. It may
51 7,10| that “when the Spirit of Truth has come, He will guide
52 7,10| He will guide you in all truth” (Jn 16:13).~ ~
53 7,11| tree of Holy Tradition [The Truth of Our Faith, pp. 56-57].~ ~
54 7,11| the authenticity of its truth only together with Holy
55 7,11| and so reached the whole Truth. Revelation is not altered
56 7,11| voices, precisely because the Truth is one, and discord never
57 7,11| is to guide the Church in Truth. Apostolic Tradition is
58 7,11| and by all. Therein is the Truth.~ ~
59 7,13| pillar and ground of the Truth (1 Tim 3:15). The Orthodox
60 7,14| of the Church we accept truth and in this way we draw
61 7,14| closer to Christ, Who is the Truth (Jn 14:16). These judgments
62 7,14| separation from the Truth.~ ~The writers of Scripture
63 7,14| distorted God's revealed Truth, that is, various false
64 7,14| alone, man can ascertain truth and can derive universals
65 7,14| s revelation to find the truth, but that he could rely
66 7,14| golden links in the chain of Truth forged by the Holy Spirit
67 7,14| investigate and analyze the Truth of the Church through human
68 7,14| perfect spiritual men’ (The Truth of Our Faith, p. 160). Hieromonk
69 7,14| its living relation to the truth of Christianity. In the
70 7,14| today believe that Christian truth need no longer be tied to
71 7,14| in a universal absolute truth, Wycliffe went in the opposite
72 7,14| struggling with the question of truth. Unfortunately, however,
73 7,14| come to a knowledge of the truth primarily by thinking through
74 7,14| all-embracing reality of God's Truth. Because of that priority
75 7,14| Protestantism [asked]: Why is the truth given to the pope alone? —
76 7,14| pope alone? — and added: Truth and salvation are open to
77 7,14| to restore ecclesiastical truth in the West did not return
78 7,14| rediscovered “lost biblical truth.” This is truly a sad state
79 7,14| pass on the unadulterated truth, these scholars seek to
80 7,14| superior understanding of truth than the Holy Apostles,
81 7,14| the Holy Fathers, and the Truth of truths, the Truth Himself,
82 7,14| the Truth of truths, the Truth Himself, the Incarnate God.
83 7,14| group has a piece of the truth, while no one group has
84 7,14| one group has the whole truth. The idea that all denominations,
85 7,14| programmed to believe — that “all truth is relative,” that there
86 7,14| as objective and absolute truth (which means that there
87 7,14| which means that there is no truth at all), that anything and
88 7,14| to lay claim to absolute Truth. Hence, any opinion is considered
89 7,14| which says, “This is the Truth.”~ These ideas find fertile
90 7,14| dogmas reflecting absolute truth.~ In the ecumenical movement,
91 7,17| many-faceted, established truth.~ After many centuries of
92 7,17| Who delivered the absolute Truth to aid weak and limited
93 7,17| life, and one knowing the truth, did not make grave errors
94 7,17| not know the fullness of truth. Those verses of Scriptures
95 7,17| Christ — and doubtless the truth of the Virgin Birth itself —
96 7,17| struggled to save what is in truth the very core, the heart,
97 7,19| did not seek to find the truth by making conjectures by
98 7,19| already-existing revealed Truth, of which they also had
99 7,21| believe there is absolute Truth, that there is divine revelation.
100 7,22| come to guide the Church in Truth (Jn 16:13). The most important
101 8,7 | decisively confirmed the truth of the Orthodox Church's
102 8,11| Father, even the Spirit of Truth Who proceedeth from the
103 9,3 | spiritually. If a man strives for truth and good, for the righteousness
104 9,3 | of Persons of God. This truth, Fr. Michael notes, is expressed
105 9,3 | faith in the Trinitarian Truth [“Fundamentals of the Orthodox
106 9,28| Christians to God's life, truth and love. As Christ told
107 9,28| Apostles, “When the Spirit of Truth comes, He will guide you
108 9,28| He will guide you in all truth; for He will not speak of
109 9,28| s preservation of divine Truth.~ Furthermore, the Holy
110 9,28| King, Comforter, Spirit of Truth, Who art every where present
111 9,39| praying to God “in spirit and truth,” the reading of the Gospels,
112 9,42| anthropologist Katrefage gets to the truth of the matter in his observation
113 9,42| case recedes less from the truth than he who does not acknowledge
114 9,42| other peoples had lost this truth for some time. Even among
115 9,42| polytheistic nations, the truth of one God was becoming
116 9,42| the fall, one in which the truth of the biblical account
117 10,10| openly that indisputable truth that Christ created precisely
118 10,10| one Church. Where is the truth?~ An Orthodox abbot gives
119 10,10| opinions, but there is only one truth. And authentic Christian
120 10,10| pillar and ground of the Truth (1 Tim 3:15) [Orthodox Dogmatic
121 10,12| sharing bits and pieces of the truth.~ Carrying the branch theory
122 10,12| ecumenism promotes “love” above truth, ignorance of dogma for
123 10,12| relativization of God's Truth. As Archimandrite Sergius,
124 10,13| whose own search for the truth took him through various
125 10,13| said: “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life, no man cometh
126 10,14| Orthodox, and possessing the Truth in its fullness, betray
127 10,14| who knowingly pervert the truth.... They have been born
128 10,15| pillar and ground of the Truth (1 Tim 3:15). The Church
129 10,16| faith and to proclaim the truth — such is his teaching office,
130 10,18| constancy and the unerring truth of Christian dogma does
131 10,19| in being guardians of the truth. While they do not participate
132 10,19| teaching and proclaiming the truth, they do guard it, for all
133 10,19| God's people possess the truth (Christian dogma). As Archimandrite
134 10,23| and the Virgin Mary.” This truth was denied, though, not
135 10,26| to wage war against the truth through men who do his will.~
136 10,26| Catholics distinguish where the truth was. Up until the end of
137 10,26| that led only to seeming truth (Scholasticism), and finally,
138 10,26| called himself “the way, the truth, and the life,” proclaimed
139 10,26| lie, being the Mother of Truth (Jn 14:6).~ ~
140 10,28| unto the knowledge of the truth” (1 Tim 2:4). However, man
141 11,4 | inform us about the great truth of the “Trinity in Unity” —
142 11,4 | bearing the garment of truth woven of the theology from
143 11,4 | impiety into the light of truth. (The east is a symbol of
144 11,4 | symbol of light, good and truth, the priest notes, whereas
145 11,4 | depository of Apostolic Christian Truth. As this course makes abundantly
146 11,4 | sanctification. It is there that the truth of the future resurrection,
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