Nikolaj Velimirovic quotes
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
Bless my enemies, O Lord. And I bless them and do not curse them. My enemies have driven me into Your arms more than my friends have. My friends have bound me to the earth; My enemies have loosened my bonds from the earth and have torn up all my hopes in the earth. They have turned me into a stranger in the kingdoms of this earth and into a superfluous inhabitant of this earth. Like an animal that finds a safer shelter when hunted down rather than when not, so have I, hunted down by my enemies, found the safest shelter by hiding under Thy tent where neither friend nor foe can slay my soul. Bless my enemies, O Lord. And I bless them and do not curse them. They, instead of me, have confessed my sins before the world.
Nikolaj Velimirovic
Whatever you lose for God's sake, you will save; whatever you save for your own sake, you will lose. Whatever you give in God's name, you will receive a hundredfold; whatever you give for your own glory and vanity, will perish. Whatever you receive from people in God's name will bring you joy; whatever you receive from them as payment will bring you worry.
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
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
Nikolaj Velimirovic
Occupation: Serbian Bishop
Born: December 23, 1880
Died: March 18, 1956
Quotes count: 60
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