"As we always behave with great respect to old people, honouring their grey hair and wisdom - the fruits of experience - and highly value each of their words, and, apply them to our own life, so ought we especially to honour the Church, venerate her holiness, antiquity, her unshaken firmness, her divinely enlightened wisdom and spiritual experience, her soul-saving commandments and ordinances, her divine services, sacraments and rites."
-Saint John of Kronstadt
-Saint John of Kronstadt
"Let no one out of laziness or continuous worldly occupations miss these holy Sunday gatherings, which God Himself handed down to us, lest he be justly abandoned by God... If you are detained and do not attend on one occasion, make up for it the next time, bringing yourself to Christ's Church. Otherwise you may remain uncured, suffering from unbelief in your soul because of deeds or words, and failing to approach Christ's surgery to receive... holy healing."
-Saint Gregory Palamas
-Saint Gregory Palamas