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Patristic theology, and traditional teachings of Orthodoxy from the Church fathers of apostolic times to the present. All forum Rules apply. No polemics. No heated discussions. No name-calling.


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When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
Helen Keller

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When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Helen Keller

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When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
Helen Keller

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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
Charles de Gaulle

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Never relinquish the initiative.
Charles de Gaulle

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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An old man said, "The reason why we do not make progress is because we do not know our own measure, and we do not persevere in the work we undertake, and we want to acquire virtue without labor."
A word from the desert

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