☦️🌟 The Holy Tradition predates the Bible 🌟☦️
The Scripture is a part of the ancient oral tradition. Moses' mother name was Yokheved (derived from YHWH, she's in the picture), that is "God is my glory". It means this God's name was well known long before the first word of the Bible was written.

☦️🌟 An ancient Orthodox church in Mesopotamia. The region, which is now associated with the term "the Church of the East" was indeed Orthodox. For example, the Father of the Church, to whom the basilica is dedicated, St. Yakov, is venerated in Orthodoxy.

☦️🕯️“If you see your neighbor in sin, don’t look only at this, but also think about what he has done or does that is good, and infrequently trying this in general, while not partially judging, you will find that he is better than you.”🕯️☦️

♰ St. Basil the Great ♰

☦️🕯️"You must know, my child, that nothing happens without reason or by chance. Everything has its purpose. Not even a pine needle falls from a tree unless God wills it. Therefore, you should not worry about everything that happens to you.
Look! You worry about your wife, sometimes about your children. Yet they elevate you spiritually. If they were not there, you would not progress spiritually at all. That is how God wills it. But you are very sensitive, and your stomach and gut hurt from too much worry.
It is not good when someone is overly sensitive, like you, because excessive worry, as in your case, causes various bodily illnesses. And do you know that all mental illnesses are demons? If we confess, the Lord will give us strength.
If we have Christ within us...
Let us not be troubled by the end times, nor by the Antichrist and his signs. Because, know this: if we have Christ within us, the Antichrist can do us no harm—none at all."☦️

♰ St. Porphyrios of Kapsokalyvia♰

“Love every man in spite of his sins. Never reject anyone, for in rejecting another, you reject Him who created him and loves him. Love all as yourself, and strive to show this love in deeds.”

+ St John of Kronstadt

The Church is a ship sailing to the harbor of salvation.

☦️St. Sophrony of Essex☦️

Once a child was abandoned somewhere in the Russian province (rarely but that happens) and the stray cat Masha saved him! She got into the box where the baby was laying in the frost, warming him and meowing to draw attention of passers-by. She succeeded and has become famous.

Animals often amaze us. Sometimes they put us, who have intellect and the commandments, to shame.

☦️🕯️God is nearer to us than any man at every time. He is nearer to me than my raiment, nearer than the air or light."🕯️☦️

♰ St. John of Kronstadt ♰

☦️🕯️So, morning or evening, immediately before you begin to repeat your prayers, stand awhile, sit for awhile, or walk a little and try to steady your mind and turn it away from all worldly activities and objects. After this, think who He is to whom you turn in prayer, then recollect who you are; who it is who is about to start this invocation to Him in prayer. Do this in such a way as to waken in your heart a feeling of humility and reverent awe that you are standing in the presence of God.☦️

♰ St. Theophan the Recluse ♰