Nathan Rupp

Husband, father, eastern orthodox, clinical chaplain, learning to live gently in a violent world.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

Notice the different in Labor Day Messages today?

Which one sounds more like one from a mentally unstable egotistical maniac?

[Kim W. Chafee @RevKimWChafee]

😔

[Kim W. Chafee @RevKimWChafee]

Amen!

[Fyodor Dostoevsky Collection 🪓 @Dostoevskyquot]

Love the animals, love the plants, love everything.

If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things.

Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day.

And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.

[Nathan Rupp @NRupp7]

@Dostoevskyquot Eugene Vodolazkin

[Nathan Rupp @NRupp7]

"Memory believes before knowing remembers." -As I Lay Dying

[𝐌𝐳𝐖 @mzw_13]

“The world” with its ugly pride, materialism, lust, greed, militarism & hatred is a lie.

Jesus Christ & His beautiful, gentle Kingdom of Love, Joy & Peace is the Truth.

[Nathan Rupp @NRupp7]

@mzw_13 I think "parody of being" is a solid classification

[𝐌𝐳𝐖 @mzw_13]

“..no human heart will persevere in its hardness, but will melt & will be transfigured by ..love. ‘Beauty will save the world’ (Dostoevsky, The Idiot) — but this will be the beauty of Holiness.” ~ Fr. Sergius Bulgakov

— followed by the best footnote I think I’ve ever read:

[Nathan Rupp @NRupp7]

@matt_allbritton West Ham

[George MacDonald @MacDonald_daily]

The reality of Christ’s nature is not to be proved by argument. He must be beheld.

[Danté Stewart (Stew) @stewartdantec]

"If one believes in the Prince of Peace one must stop committing crimes in the name of the Prince of Peace."
—James Baldwin

[Fr Fedora @EOrthodoxy]

“Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil.” ~ George MacDonald

[Nathan Rupp @NRupp7]

When Bob Dylan is in town, you go see Bob Dylan.

[Nathan Rupp @NRupp7]

@BrianZahnd We Orthodox do not have a dog in this fight. We ingest nothing before receiving the eucharist. Surprisingly it rarely runs inquirers off, though.

[𝐌𝐳𝐖 @mzw_13]

“Now Jesus ..is born as a child for us, in different ways in the hearts of those who receive Him. He is not the same in everyone, but only according to the measure of those in whom He dwells, adapting Himself to the capacity of each one who receives Him.” ~ St Gregory of Nyssa