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Ecclesia - Daily updated, full reference to the Church of Greece and a commentary on world issues from the orthodox perspective.
Scientology Uncovered - Operation Clambake describes how and why Greece shut down a local branch of Scientology
Ecumenical Patriarchate Home Page - Award winning site with resources on the Orthodox Christian faith and life; news on the Orthodox Church; Links to other sites.
A Short History of the Jews of Greece - Well-known historian Nikos Stavrolakis details Jewish history in Greece from ancient times through to the modern day. Introduction by Matt Barrett.
Find the Date of Orthodox Easter - A simple method for determining the date of Orthodox Easter. Charts and explanations by Ronald W. Mallen of the Astronomical Society of South Australia.
Christianity - Information on Christianity in Greece from the Free Apostolic Church of Pentecost.
JesusLovesYou.gr - Greek Christian Portal - Greek Christian Portal. Greek Text.
Smalta - Products and online ordering of this manufacturer of consecrated vessels with genuine enamel.
"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. -- Katharine Hepburn Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable. -- Beaumont, Francis "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. -- Steven Wright Religion Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does. -- Groucho Marx Religion "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. -- Alexandre Dumas fils Religion I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. -- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Religion As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. -- Abraham Lincoln I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was doing spying. -- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Every calling is great when greatly pursued. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't." -- Ernest Rutherford Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Religion It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. - Albert Einstein Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies. -- Groucho Marx I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on. -- Oscar Levant Religion My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. -- D.H. Lawrence Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. -- G. M. Trevelyan The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders. -- P. J. O'Rourke Religion Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with? -- Rita Rudner "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. -- Edward P. Tryon Religion He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior. -- Confucius When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald Religion "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. -- Walt Disney Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Religion "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is. -- Ellen DeGeneres This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force. -- Dorothy Parker "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Religion We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first. -- Anonymous Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back. -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it. -- Anonymous Religion The soul is healed by being with children. -- Fyodor Dostoyevski All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. -- Joan Borysenko Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not even talking about the programs). -- Nicholas Negroponte Religion I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and "cheap"? -- Phyllis Diller There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it. -- Anonymous "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Religion Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. -- Aldous Huxley Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things. -- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. - Bertrand Russell Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers. -- Anonymous Religion Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture. -- Aldous Huxley All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult. -- Anonymous The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day. -- Adlai Stevenson Religion Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. -- Baskins Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item. -- Anonymous "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person must be fired. -- Conway's Law Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. -- Thornton Wilder Religion The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free. -- Indigo Girls, song lyric Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it. -- Anon. Religion Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. -- Mae West "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. -- Dorothy Parker In the end, everything is a gag. - Charlie Chaplin Religion If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. -- Scott Adams "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Religion For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth- knowing. - Henry Louis Mencken All television is children's television. -- Richard P. Adler If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. -- Elbert Hubbard Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. -- Confucius blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Religion Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. -- Benjamin Franklin "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grie Religion
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