A Basic Guide to Eastern Orthodox Theology Quotes

“The Holy Spirit, present everywhere and filling all things, brings the faithful together as the Body of Christ and establishes the context of prayer and worship.”
― Eve Tibbs, A Basic Guide to Eastern Orthodox Theology: Introducing Beliefs and Practices

“In other words, the superlative role model for Christians is a woman.”
― Eve Tibbs, A Basic Guide to Eastern Orthodox Theology: Introducing Beliefs and Practices

“I am an image of Your ineffable glory, though I bear the scars of my transgressions. Take pity on me, the work of Your hands, Master, and cleanse me by Your compassion. Grant me the desired homeland for which I long, making me again a citizen of Paradise.”
― Eve Tibbs, A Basic Guide to Eastern Orthodox Theology: Introducing Beliefs and Practices

“We have thus contracted something like a disease—the disease of death and decay—and we are desperately subject to a world in which the Evil One presently has a stronghold.”
― Eve Tibbs, A Basic Guide to Eastern Orthodox Theology: Introducing Beliefs and Practices

“A heretical teaching arises out of a decision to deviate from revelation in favor of one’s own insights. In the Christian context, heresy means an intentional or formal preference to deny or compromise a core dogma of the Christian Faith even when one is faced with a preponderance of evidence that the resulting belief is not correct.”
― Eve Tibbs, A Basic Guide to Eastern Orthodox Theology: Introducing Beliefs and Practices

“the Divine Liturgy celebrated in parts of Africa might include drums and tribal dancing, which makes it look strikingly different from the same Divine Liturgy celebrated in North America—yet it is the same Divine Liturgy.”
― Eve Tibbs, A Basic Guide to Eastern Orthodox Theology: Introducing Beliefs and Practices

“the diverse humans in the Church are also intended to share in a oneness of nature.”
― Eve Tibbs, A Basic Guide to Eastern Orthodox Theology: Introducing Beliefs and Practices

“no bishop in the Church “can claim to wield an absolute power over all the rest.”
― Eve Tibbs, A Basic Guide to Eastern Orthodox Theology: Introducing Beliefs and Practices

“But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me. (John 15:26)”
― Eve Tibbs, A Basic Guide to Eastern Orthodox Theology: Introducing Beliefs and Practices

“Jesus did send the Spirit into history to the disciples on earth, but Jesus also took care to clarify that this same Spirit proceeds eternally from the Father, and from the Father alone:”
― Eve Tibbs, A Basic Guide to Eastern Orthodox Theology: Introducing Beliefs and Practices

“we are in the same condition as men who lose their appetite for all food regardless of what it is, after being disgusted with some particular dish; we take an equal dislike to all doctrinal discussion.”
― Eve Tibbs, A Basic Guide to Eastern Orthodox Theology: Introducing Beliefs and Practices

“Not only does the Holy Spirit make us all one, but he makes us each different. At Pentecost the multiplicity of tongues was not abolished, but it ceased to be a cause of separation; each spoke as before in his own tongue, but by the power of the Spirit each could understand the others.”
― Eve Tibbs, A Basic Guide to Eastern Orthodox Theology: Introducing Beliefs and Practices

“The communion (koinōnia) of the Holy Trinity is being revealed to the Church continually through the Holy Spirit as “an event of communion, which transforms everything the Spirit touches into a relational being.”
― Eve Tibbs, A Basic Guide to Eastern Orthodox Theology: Introducing Beliefs and Practices

“The Lord’s flesh does not suffer corruption, it remains incorruptible even in death itself, i.e., alive, as though it had never died, for it abides in the very bosom of the Life in the Hypostasis of the Word.”
― Eve Tibbs, A Basic Guide to Eastern Orthodox Theology: Introducing Beliefs and Practices

“Because God is infinite and we are not, Gregory said that the soul will never tire of moving closer to divine love.”
― Eve Tibbs, A Basic Guide to Eastern Orthodox Theology: Introducing Beliefs and Practices

“Even in humanity’s fallen state, however, those created in the image of God still long to return to that garden and to communion with the Creator.”
― Eve Tibbs, A Basic Guide to Eastern Orthodox Theology: Introducing Beliefs and Practices

“Jesus Christ, the “God of all,” has destroyed the gates of Hades and the power of death and rescued us from the power of the Evil One.”
― Eve Tibbs, A Basic Guide to Eastern Orthodox Theology: Introducing Beliefs and Practices

“Therefore in faith we praise your resurrection by which you saved us as God of all.”
― Eve Tibbs, A Basic Guide to Eastern Orthodox Theology: Introducing Beliefs and Practices