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« Reply #45 on: March 17, 2010, 09:47:30 AM » |
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Congratulations, I look forward to your news about that happy day!
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Your brother in Christ ,
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« Reply #46 on: May 03, 2011, 12:00:32 AM » |
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wow, I look at this old thread from a couple years ago, and relize how immiture I was. I thought that I could just go to Church and request baptism, which is alot of what is done in most non-Orthodox "churches" today. I thank you all for your counsel and advice, and for putting up with me. I am happy to be an Orthodox Christian, and couldn't have done it without all of you!
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"It is true that I am not always faithful, but I never lose courage, I leave myself in the Arms of Our Lord." - St. Thérèse of Lisieux
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« Reply #47 on: May 03, 2011, 12:06:24 AM » |
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Hey, don't feel bad, when I come across posts I made when I first joined here I literally can't read them, because I was such a jerk or idiot with what I said (still working on that  ). I'm glad you have discerned and found where you are supposed to be, though  |
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St. Basil is great!
Wonder if he drank goat's milk . . .
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« Reply #48 on: May 03, 2011, 12:10:04 AM » |
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Mazeltov, hope this works out for you
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Proverbs 22:7
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« Reply #49 on: May 03, 2011, 05:29:06 PM » |
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Trevor, I'd like to thank for sharing this. When I first read it it inspired me to pursue Orthodoxy in the real world instead of just doing nothing but reading up online because I was, in my mind, too young.
Glory be to Jesus Christ.
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Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition and religious folly. - Immanuel Kant
Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift. - Matt. 5:24
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« Reply #50 on: May 03, 2011, 07:54:10 PM » |
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Christ is Risen!
Trevor, never apologize for your willingness to expose your vulnerability or frustrations or possible naivete.
IMHO, it is one of your most admirable qualities and one I could learn and do learn from.
Another admirable quality you possess is that you seem to take advice and try to follow it earnestly and express with honesty the frustrations of following such advice.
You are young and seemingly disciplined and honest in a less than stable environment. No mean feat to manage.
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Ignorance is not a lack, but a passion.
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« Reply #51 on: May 03, 2011, 08:51:25 PM » |
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Christ is risen!
Trevor, you are so much further along the spiritual path than I was at your age (and probably a fair way ahead of me even now).
There is nothing more Orthodox and Christian than being ready and willing to confess your challenges and weaknesses, so keep doing it!
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The Episcopallian road is easy and wide, for many go through it to find destruction. lol sorry channeling Isa.
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« Reply #52 on: May 03, 2011, 08:58:37 PM » |
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thank you all so much. I say with complete confidence that, without all of you and OC.net, I'd probably wouldn't have converted. it's through reading and meeting people here on the forum that I've really learned about my faith, and I am deeply in love with my new found faith!!!
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