In exhorting Christians to attend church for prayer, St. John Chrysostom says:

“If someone delivers to subjugated citizens a royal decree, the citizens do not question the life of the messenger, as to whether he is rich or poor or righteous or sinful, but all listen attentively to that which he is reading. If someone has not heard, he asks one who has heard. When you have such great awe of earthly rulers, how much more should you heed us (priests) here, where the Creator of the heavenly powers speaks through us sinners.”

Indeed, what is Holy Scripture but a document of the Heavenly King? Why is it that this unique and saving document does not interest us every day and every hour, when the least authority in the country and his trivial orders do interest us?

St. Anthony said:
“Let everything you do have its justification in Holy Scripture.”

But how can you have justification in Holy Scripture if you are not familiar with Holy Scripture?

— St. Nikolai Velimirovic, The Prologue of Ohrid, April 24

The Genesis account of the Fourth Day of Crea­tion is very difficult to fit into the usual ideas of the evolution of the universe, because the Scriptures and the Holy Fathers state quite cer­tainly that the sun was created on that Day, after the earth and the plants and the trees were already there. Furthermore, the Fathers say that the sun, the moon and the stars (and all the black holes and what­ever is out there) were all created on the Fourth Day in one instant. God waved His hand and the whole thing came into being, trillions of miles away. Of course, God is bigger than the universe, so why wouldn't He be able to do that? He has no problem.

…Nowadays atheist philosophers like to say that the relative size of the earth proves man is but a speck lost in the universe. They say, "The earth is so small, the universe is so big-so obviously the universe is more important than man, and God did not make everything for man." But if you think in terms of what the Fathers say—that the sun was made after the earth had already been there—then it is clear that everything was made for man.

-Fr. Seraphim Rose, Genesis Creation, and Early Man, pp. 375-376

"The Greek church has become largely an empty shell that doesn’t represent anything. The patriarch of Constantinople parishes in the US are even worse. Ever try watching any history programs of ecclesiastical teachings filmed by a Greek parish or Goarch? They are all horrible, nearly unwatchable and bereft of the touch of God."
- Jim Minter

St. John Maximovitch's teachings regarding Holy Communion. This is highly recommended!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdxM3cU2tMk

Icon of St. Seraphim Rose of Platina at Holy Archangel Michael Serbian Orthodox Church in Australia.

A monk complained to St. Arsenius that while reading Holy Scripture he felt neither the power of the words he read nor gentleness in his heart. The great saint replied to him:

“My child, just read! I heard that when snake-charmers cast a spell upon serpents, these sorcerers utter words which they themselves do not understand, but the serpents, hearing the words spoken, sense their power and are tamed. And so it is with us, when the words of Holy Scripture are continually on our lips, although we do not feel the power of the words, evil spirits tremble and flee for they are unable to endure the words of the Holy Spirit.” My child, just read! The Holy Spirit, Who wrote these divine words through inspired men, will hear, understand and hasten to your assistance. Likewise, the demons will hear and understand, and will flee from you. That is: He to Whom you are calling for help will understand, and those whom you wish to drive away from yourself will understand. And both goals will be achieved.

— St. Nikolai Velimirovic, The Prologue of Ohrid, May 8

"Are the people to be blamed if the godless elders and false prophets lead them astray?"

"The people are not to blame to as great a degree as their elders and false prophets, but nevertheless they are to blame to a certain extent. For God also gave the people to know the right path through conscience and through the preaching of God’s word. Thus, the people should not have blindly followed their blind leaders when they led them on false paths and distanced them from God and God’s law."

— St. Nikolai Velimirovic, The Prologue of Ohrid, May 6

“Literature is often the result of the lies of the fallen spirits. Such novels and books are not Christian works; there is even Satanism and lies in some of them, for Satan is the father of lies.”
—Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica.

"But how can one be 'witnessing Orthodoxy' if one doesn't even inform the Catholics that they have no sacraments...?"

-Fr. Seraphim Rose, letter dated June 22/July 5, 1970

https://www.goldenmouth.org/st-seraphim-of-platina/letters#june-22july-5-1970

Found this at a monastery in Serbia, seraphim rose as a saint

Life on our little family farm. Nothing better than tilling up the ground, driving my tractor with my youngest son. 🚜 😊