Stand on the edge of the abyss and when you feel that it is beyond your strength, break off and have a cup of tea." - Sophrony Sakharov

If one rejects the Orthodox creed and the eastern ascetic experience of life in Christ, which has been acquired throughout the centuries, then Orthodox culture would be left with nothing but the Greek minor [key] and Russian tetraphony.

No sin is unforgivable except the sin that is not repented of.

Most people neither hear nor understand God speaking in their hearts: they listen to the urging of passion, which inhabits the soul and with its clamour drowns the still small voice of God.