A “struggler” is one who does not trust his own opinion and no one else’s; who does not “know better” on everything, who does not set himself up as an ultimate authority, who does not form cliques and try to crush anyone outside the clique. But if they are not strugglers, but only “experts,” all their good labors will come to ruin, sooner or later.
☦️Fr. Seraphim Rose
Not necessarily hand illustrated but a fantastic zine 😌
Ill add this: Christ took on a physical body, established a physical church, performed miracles with material things (mud, water, etc). We experience God through physical relationships, through physical sacraments. The condescension of God into the real world is for our salvation not because He needed it but because we did.
GM☕☦️ "The Church is the pillar and buttress of truth."
Ephesians 4:4-6 — There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
Jude 1:3 — Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.
1 Timothy 3:15 — if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth.
2 Peter 3:15-17 — And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures. You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability.
"Let us remember the poor, and not forget kindness to strangers; above all, let us love God with all our soul, and might, and strength, and our neighbour as ourselves."
☦️St. Athanasius of Alexandria
“The Christian life is a constant battle, but the weapons we use are not of this world—they are prayer, fasting, and love, which conquer through the power of Christ.”
☦️ St. John of San Francisco
"When the heart is full of love, it speaks even in silence."
☦️St. Paisios of Mt Athos
"The joy of Pascha is the foretaste of eternal life, for Christ has trampled death by death and granted life to those in the tombs."
☦️St. Seraphim of Sarov
Even while feasting on the good things of this earth that are permitted to us in this joyful season, we should yet thirst for what lies above the earth, for the Holy Spirit Whose coming we await even while we enjoy the presence among us of the Risen Lord.
☦️Fr. Seraphim Rose
Dispensationalists, how do you reconcile this with your worldview?
Joshua 21:43-45— Thus the LORD gave to Israel all the land that he swore to give to their fathers. And they took possession of it, and they settled there. And the LORD gave them rest on every side just as he had sworn to their fathers. Not one of all their enemies had withstood them, for the LORD had given all their enemies into their hands. Not one word of all the good promises that the LORD had made to the house of Israel had failed; all came to pass.
The Pope (as we understand the term today) was the first Protestant. 
"While this marks a historic moment for the Roman Catholic Church, it also serves as a reminder for Orthodox Christians to pray for all who seek to lead others in the name of Christ. We must remember that from the Orthodox perspective, the Pope of Rome, since the Great Schism of 1054, no longer holds canonical authority within the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church. The path to true unity lies not in novelty or innovation, but in repentance, humility, and a return to the unbroken Tradition of the Fathers. Let us remain steadfast in the Orthodox Faith and continue to witness to the fullness of the Truth entrusted to the Church by Christ Himself. The Orthodox Church should prepare for converts even more so with the election of Cardinal Provost".
"Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths..." — Jeremiah 6:16
2 Thessalonians 2:15 — So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the traditions that you were taught by us, either by our spoken word or by our letter.
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I should have been more clear in my post. *Bret's take on evolution is what I find absurd. I am about half way, and really am only interested in the evolutionary dialogue.
Nothing Bret said is verifiable and, in fact, he doesn't bring any "scientific evidence" to his argument of evolution but instead gives examples of "how he sees it".
Tucker interviewed Bret Weinstein in his recent podcast. I do not know how folks take Bret seriously.
St. Palamas (Third Triad)
"Since the Son of God, in His incomparable love for man, did not only unite His divine hypostasis with our nature, by clothing Himself in a living body and a soul gifted with intelligence ... but also united Himself... with the human hypostases themselves, in mingling Himself with each of the faithful by communion with His Holy Body, and since He becomes one single Body with us, and makes us a temple of the undivided divinity—for in the very Body of Christ dwelleth the fulness of the Godhead bodily—how should He not illuminate those who commune worthily with the divine ray of His Body which is within us, lightening their souls, as He illumined the very bodies of the disciples on Mount Tabor? For on the day of the Transfiguration, that Body, source of the light of Grace, was not yet united with our bodies; it illuminated from outside those who worthily approached it and sent the illumination into the soul by the intermediary of the physical eyes; but now, since it is mingled with us and exists in us, it illuminates the soul from within."
Here are two commentaries from Orthodox saints that may help.
"Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. - John 14:12
Having said, Believe for the works’ sake, our Lord goes on to declare that He can do much greater than these, and what is more wonderful, give others the power of working them. Verily, verily, I say to you, He that believes in Me, the works that I do, shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do.
i.e. I shall not perish, but shall remain in My proper dignity, in heaven. Or He means: It is your part henceforth to work miracles, since I am going.
In My name, He says. Thus the Apostles, In the name of Jesus of Nazareth, arise and walk. , All the miracles that they did, He did: the hand of the Lord was with them.
For when the great power of c the Son is manifested, He that begot Him is glorified. He introduces this last, to confirm the truth of what He has said.
- St. John Chrysostom
This is an explanation of the doctrine of miracles. It is by prayer, and invocation of His name, that a man is able to work miracles.
Observe the order in which the glorifying of the Father comes. In the name of Jesus miracles were done, by which men were made to believe the Apostles’ preaching. This brought them to the knowledge of the Father, and thus the Father was glorified in the Son.
- St. Theophilus of Antioch
Yes
St. John is mirroring the Text of Genesis in his prologue and essentially finishes his gospel with the words of the Lord, "It is finished" which hearkens back to the creation narrative, as in, mankind is now perfected through Him (the doctrine of Theosis in the Orthodox Church).
Fr. John Behr has a beautiful book that covers this:
Becoming Human: Meditations on Christian Anthropology in Word and Image