Conflict With ROC After The Soviet Fall
| Slavic Orthodox Christianity |
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| Part of the series on Eastern Christianity |
Read more about this topic: Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia Famous quotes containing the words conflict with, conflict, soviet and/or fall:“He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty helps us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.” “We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.” “Nothing an interested foreigner may have to say about the Soviet Union today can compare with the scorn and fury of those who inhabit the ruin of a dream.” “The greater part of our best years has been passed for our generation in these two great worldconvulsions. All will be changed after this war, which spends in one month more than nations earned before in years ... there is no more security in our time than in those of the Reformation or the fall of Rome.” |