Nikolaj Velimirovic quotes
That God may forgive us, let us forgive men. We are all on this earth as temporary guests. Prolonged fasting and prayer is in vain Without forgiveness and true mercy. God is the true Physician; sins are leprosy. Whomever God cleanses, God also glorifies. Every merciful act of men, God rewards with mercy. He who returns sin with sin perishes without mercy. Pus is not cleansed by pus from infected wounds, Neither is the darkness of the dungeon dispelled by darkness, But pure balm heals the festering wound, And light disperses the darkness of the dungeon. To the seriously wounded, mercy is like a balm; As if seeing a torch dispersing the darkness, everyone rejoices in mercy. The madman says, "I have no need of mercy!” But when he is overcome by misery, he cries out for mercy! Men bathe in the mercy of God, And that mercy of God wakens us to life! That God may forgive us, let us forgive men, We are all on this earth as temporary guests.
Nikolaj Velimirovic
No vice or passion appears under its real name. Fornication goes by the name of love, covetousness calls itself prosperity, gambling by fun, drunkenness and partying, by friendship, envy by justice and equality. In fact, often behind the rebellion against injustice and inequality is ordinary envy!
Nikolaj Velimirovic
The world has departed from the truth. The Christian world has departed from the truth. And when one departs from the truth even by a hair's breadth, one strays miles away from justice and honesty. The Christian world has thus become false, unjust, and dishonest-to such an extent that it has surpassed even non-Christian nations in this. Because of this, the Eternal Truth had to allow terrible upheavals, storms, and horrors to shake human consciousness and cleanse it from chaff and lies. If you ask what we must do to be saved, I will answer you: know the truth, and the truth will set you free from all evil. Christ is the Truth, and the witness of eternal heavenly truth. Know Christ. Show Christ in your life-in your personal life, in your family, and in society-and Christ will save you from all evils and from all evildoers, both visible and invisible. Amen.
Nikolaj Velimirovic
What does it mean to take up your cross? It means the willing acceptance, at the hand of Providence, of every means of healing, bitter though it may be, that is offered. Do great catastrophes fall on you? Be obedient to God's will, as Noah was. Is sacrifice demanded of you? Give yourself into God's hands with the same faith as Abram had when he went to sacrifice his son. Is your property ruined? Do your children die suddenly? Suffer it all with patience, cleaving to God in your heart, as Job did. Do your friends forsake you, and you find yourself surrounded by enemies? Bear it all without grumbling, and with faith that God's help is at hand, as the apostles did.
Nikolaj Velimirovic
Let the Church be the Church, that is, the community of the saints. Let the world know that the Church's mission on earth is not to accumulate wealth, or to gain political power or knowledge, or to cling to this institution or to that, but to cleanse mankind from its unclean, evil spirits, and to fill it with the spirit of saintliness.
Nikolaj Velimirovic
It was necessary to let evil compete as much as it could, so that, later, it should break and fade away. It was necessary to let evil cry out as loudly as it could, so that it should later be rendered dumb before the wonder of the Resurrection. It was necessary that all human wickedness against God should be revealed, that the love and mercy of God towards man should be seen and valued. The angels who were not sent to defend Christ from the Jews were sent three days later to reveal His holy Resurrection.
Nikolaj Velimirovic
Nikolaj Velimirovic
Occupation: Serbian Bishop
Born: December 23, 1880
Died: March 18, 1956
Quotes count: 60
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