The Orthodox Study Bible Quotes

“For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.”
― Anonymous, The Orthodox Study Bible: Ancient Christianity Speaks to Today's World

“You, our God, are kind, true, patient, And govern all things in mercy. 2 For even if we sin, we belong to You and know Your might; But we will not sin, Because we know that we are counted as belonging to You. 3 For to know You is complete righteousness, And to know Your might is the root of immortality.†”
― Anonymous, The Orthodox Study Bible: Ancient Christianity Speaks to Today's World

“145:1   Ps 145 praises the Lord, the Creator, for His eternal reign in the Church (vv. 1, 2, 6, 10). For He is our helper, our hope, our freedom, our restorer, our wisdom, and our keeper (vv. 5, 7–9). No earthly rulers can provide these things, for death overtakes them (vv. 3, 4).”
― Peter E. Gillquist, The Orthodox Study Bible: Ancient Christianity Speaks to Today's World

“20And David said to his son Solomon, “Be strong and of good courage, and do it. Do not fear nor be dismayed, for the Lord God, my God, will be with you. He will not leave you nor forsake you until you have finished all the work for the service of the house of the Lord.”
― Peter E. Gillquist, The Orthodox study bible

“20And David said to his son Solomon, “Be strong and of good courage, and do it. Do not fear nor be dismayed, for the Lord God, my God, will be with you. He will not leave you nor forsake you until you have finished all the work for the service of the house of the Lord.† 21And”
― Peter E. Gillquist, The Orthodox study bible

“The Lord is gracious and merciful, Longsuffering and abundant in mercy.”
― Peter E. Gillquist, The Orthodox study bible

“Every day I shall bless You And praise Your name forever and unto ages of ages.”
― Peter E. Gillquist, The Orthodox study bible

“O Lord, hear my prayer; Give ear to my supplication in Your truth; Answer me in Your righteousness; 2 Do not enter into judgment with Your servant, For no one living shall become righteous in Your sight. 3 For the enemy persecuted my soul; He humbled my life to the ground; He caused me to dwell in dark places as one long dead, 4 And my spirit was in anguish within me; My heart was troubled within me. 5 I remembered the days of old, And I meditated on all Your works; I meditated on the works of Your hands. 6 I spread out my hands to You; My soul thirsts for You like a waterless land. (Pause) 7 Hear me speedily, O Lord; My spirit faints within me; Turn not Your face from me, Lest I become like those who go down into the pit. 8 Cause me to hear Your mercy in the morning, For I hope in You; Make me know, O Lord, the way wherein I should walk, For I lift up my soul to You. 9 Deliver me from my enemies, O Lord, For to You I flee for refuge. 10 Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God; Your good Spirit shall guide me in the land of uprightness. 11 For Your name's sake, O Lord, give me life; In Your righteousness You shall bring my soul out of affliction. 12 In Your mercy You shall destroy my enemies; You shall utterly destroy all who afflict my soul, For I am Your servant.”
― Peter E. Gillquist, The Orthodox study bible

“Where could I go from Your Spirit, Or flee from Your face? 8 If I should ascend into heaven, You would be there; If I should descend into Hades, You would be there; 9 If I should take up my wings at dawn And pitch camp at the furthest part of the sea, 10 Even there Your hand would lead me, And Your right hand would hold me.”
― Peter E. Gillquist, The Orthodox study bible

“The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand, Until I make Your enemies the footstool of Your feet.”
― Peter E. Gillquist, The Orthodox study bible

“My heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready; I will sing and give praise in my glory. 3 Awaken, lute and harp; I shall awaken early in the morning. 4 I will give thanks to You among the peoples, O Lord, And I will sing to You among the Gentiles; 5 For great is Your mercy above the heavens, And Your truth even to the clouds.”
― Peter E. Gillquist, The Orthodox study bible

“9 I shall cry to You, O Lord, And to God I shall make supplication. 10 What profit is there in my blood, When I go down into decay? Will the dust confess You? Or will it declare Your truth?”
― Peter E. Gillquist, The Orthodox study bible

“Blessed is he who understands the poor and needy; The Lord will deliver him in an evil day. 3 May the Lord keep him, and give him life, And make him blessed on the earth, And not deliver him into the hands of his enemies. 4 May the Lord help him on his bed of pain; You turned his bed from sickness to wholeness.”
― Peter E. Gillquist, The Orthodox study bible

“Psalm 90 (91) 1 The praise of an ode by David. He who dwells in the help of the Most High Shall lodge in the shelter of the God of heaven. 2He shall say to the Lord, “You are my protector and my refuge, My God; I will hope in Him; 3For He shall free me from the snare of the hunters, And from every troubling word.” 4He shall overshadow you with His shoulders, And under His wings you shall hope; His truth shall encircle you with a shield. 5You shall not be frightened by fear at night, Nor from an arrow that flies by day, 6Nor by a thing moving in darkness, Nor by mishap and a demon of noonday. 7A thousand shall fall at your side And ten thousand at your right hand, Yet it shall not come near you; 8But you shall observe with your eyes, And you shall see the reward of sinners. 9For You, O Lord, are my hope; You made the Most High your refuge. 10Evils shall not come to you, And a scourge shall not draw near your dwelling; 11For He shall command His angels concerning you, To keep you in all your ways; 12In their hands they shall bear you up, Lest you strike your foot against a stone; 13You shall tread upon the asp and the basilisk, And you shall trample the lion and the dragon. 14“For he hoped in Me, and I will deliver him; I will shelter him, because he knew My name. 15He shall call upon Me, and I will hear him; I am with him in affliction, And I will deliver and glorify him. 16With length of days I will satisfy him, And show him My salvation.”
― Anonymous, The Orthodox Study Bible: Ancient Christianity Speaks to Today's World

“So now deal with me as you will;
command my spirit to be taken from me,
so that I may be released from the face of the earth and become dust.”
― J.N. Sparks, The Orthodox Study Bible

“15For a father consumed with untimely grief When his child was soon taken from him Made an image of the once-dead human being And honored him now as a god, And handed down to those under him secret mysteries and initiations. 16Then the ungodly custom, strengthened by time, was kept as a law, And at the command of tyrants carved images were worshiped. 17When men could not honor a tyrant before his face Because he lived far away, They imagined his face from a distance And made a visible image of the honored king, That by their zeal they might flatter the one absent as though present. 18Then the ambition of the craftsman encouraged Even those who did not know the king to increase their worship. 19For wishing perhaps to please the one who ruled over him, He skillfully forced the likeness into a more beautiful form, 20And the multitude, attracted by the popularity of his work, Now considered him as an object of worship Whom a short time before they honored as a man. 21But this became a trap for their life, Because men, in bondage either to calamity or to kingly power, Conferred on stones and wood a name not shared with another.”
― Anonymous, The Orthodox Study Bible: Ancient Christianity Speaks to Today's World

“Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 “For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
― Anonymous, The Orthodox Study Bible: Ancient Christianity Speaks to Today's World

“Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.”
― Anonymous, The Orthodox Study Bible: Ancient Christianity Speaks to Today's World

“I am the Lord your God, who separated you from all peoples. 25You shall therefore distinguish between clean animals and unclean, between unclean birds and clean, and you shall not make your souls abominable by animals or birds, or by any kind of living thing that creeps on the ground, which I separated from you as unclean. 26You shall be holy to Me, for I, the Lord your God, who separated you from all peoples for Myself, am holy.”
― Anonymous, The Orthodox Study Bible: Ancient Christianity Speaks to Today's World

“Being Overly Confident 13Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we willa go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”;† 14whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. 15Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.” 16But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. 17Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.”
― Anonymous, The Orthodox Study Bible: Ancient Christianity Speaks to Today's World

“shall greatly rejoice in Your teachings, Like one finding great spoil.”
― Anonymous, The Orthodox Study Bible: Ancient Christianity Speaks to Today's World

“But he who hopes in the Lord, mercy shall encircle him.”
― Anonymous, The Orthodox Study Bible: Ancient Christianity Speaks to Today's World

“6You will seek wisdom in the company of evil men, and you will not find it; But perception is easily found with the discerning.”
― Anonymous, The Orthodox Study Bible: Ancient Christianity Speaks to Today's World

“Psalm 108 (109) 1For the End; a psalm by David.†ω O God, do not pass over my praise in silence, 2 For the mouth of the sinner and the mouth of the deceitful man opened against me; They spoke against me with a deceitful tongue; 3 And they surrounded me with words of hatred, And warred against me without cause. 4 Instead of loving me, they falsely accused me, But I continued to pray; 5 So they repaid me evil for good, And hatred for my love. 6 Set a sinner over him, And let the devil stand at his right hand. 7 And when he is judged, may he go forth condemned, And let his prayer become sin. 8 Let his days be very few, And may a different man receive his office; 9 Let his children be fatherless And his wife a widow; 10 Let his children wander about and be beggars; Let them be cast out of their houses. 11 Let the creditor search out whatever possessions he has; Let strangers plunder his labors; 12 Let there be no helper for him, Nor a compassionate one for his fatherless children; 13 Let his children be utterly destroyed; In a single generation, let his name be blotted out. 14 May the lawlessness of his fathers be remembered before the Lord, And may the sin of his mother not be blotted out; 15 Let them be continually before the Lord, And may the remembrance of them be utterly destroyed from the earth, 16 Because he did not remember to show mercy, But persecuted a poor and needy man, And one pierced to the heart, that he might kill him. 17 And he loved cursing, and it came to him, And he did not desire blessing, so it shall be far from him. 18 So he clothed himself with cursing like a garment, And it entered like water into his bowels And like oil into his bones; 19 Let it be for him like a garment that clothes him, And like a belt that girds him continually. 20 This is the work of those who falsely accuse me before the Lord, And of those who speak evil things against my soul. 21 But You, O Lord, O Lord, deal mercifully with me for Your name's sake, For Your mercy is good. 22 Save me, for I am poor and needy, And my heart is troubled within me. 23 I was removed like a shadow when it declines; I was shaken off like the locusts. 24 My knees were weak from fasting, And my flesh was changed because of the oil. 25 And I became an object of reproach to them; They saw me; they shook their heads. 26 Help me, O Lord my God; Save me according to Your mercy; 27 Then let them know this is Your hand, And You, O Lord, did this. 28 They themselves shall curse, but You shall bless; Let those who rise up against me be put to shame, But let Your servant be glad. 29 Let those who falsely accuse me be clothed with shame, And let them be covered with their dishonor like a double cloak. 30 I will give thanks to the Lord abundantly with my mouth, And in the midst of many I will praise Him, 31 Because He stood at the right hand of a poor man, To save me from those who persecute my soul.”
― Anonymous, The Orthodox Study Bible: Ancient Christianity Speaks to Today's World

“For as His majesty is, so is His mercy.”
― Anonymous, The Orthodox Study Bible: Ancient Christianity Speaks to Today's World

“Forgive a wrong done you by your neighbor; Then your sins will be pardoned when you pray.”
― Anonymous, The Orthodox Study Bible: Ancient Christianity Speaks to Today's World

“When a rich man speaks, everyone is silent, And they exalt his word to the clouds. A poor man speaks, and they say, “Who is this man?” And if he stumbles, they push him down even further.”
― Anonymous, The Orthodox Study Bible: Ancient Christianity Speaks to Today's World

“Proving by fire is a way of testing for silver and gold, But a man is tested by the mouth of those who praise him.”
― Anonymous, The Orthodox Study Bible: Ancient Christianity Speaks to Today's World

“Do not remove the eternal landmarks,”
― Anonymous, The Orthodox Study Bible: Ancient Christianity Speaks to Today's World

“Where there are no oxen, the stalls are clean, But where there are abundant crops, the strength of an ox is evident.”
― Anonymous, The Orthodox Study Bible: Ancient Christianity Speaks to Today's World