Paul Evdokimov Quotes

• In the immense cathedral which is the universe of God, each person, whether scholar or manual laborer, is called to act as the priest of his whole life--to take all that is human, and to turn it into an offering and a hymn of glory.

  Paul Evdokimov

  Hymns, Offering, Glory

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• No basta con decir oraciones: debemos convertirnos, ser oración, encarnar la oración. Toda la vida, cada acto, cada gesto, incluso la sonrisa del rostro humano, debe convertirse en un himno de adoración, en una ofrenda, en una oración. Uno debe ofrecer no lo que tiene, sino lo que es.

  Paul Evdokimov

  Spiritual, Prayer, Hymns

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• The hour through which you are at present passing, the man whom you meet here and now, the task on which you are engaged at this very moment - these are always the most important in your whole life.

  Paul Evdokimov

  Men, Important, Tasks

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• The ascetic remembrance of death is opposed to akedia, to anxiety, to depression, and becomes a powerful reminder of eternity, its joyful nostalgia.

  Paul Evdokimov

  Powerful, Anxiety, Remembrance

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• The East is unfamiliar with those confessions, memoirs, and autobiographies so beloved in the West. There is a clear difference in tonality. One's gaze never lingers on the suffering humanity of Christ, but penetrates behind the kenotic veil. To the West's mysticism of the Cross and its veneration of the Sacred Heart corresponds the eastern mysticism of the sealed tomb, from which eternal life eternal wells up.

  Paul Evdokimov

  Heart, Differences, Humanity

  "Orthodoxy". Book by Paul Evdokimov, 1968.

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