:In the earliest times “the Holy Spirit fell upon them that believed, and they spake with tongues”(paraphrasing Acts 2:4) which they had not learned, “as the Spirit gave them utterance.” These were signs adapted to the time. For it was fitting that there be this sign of the Holy Spirit in all tongues to show that the Gospel of God was to run through all tongues over the whole earth. That was done for a sign, and it passed away.

As Fr. Timothy Cremeens explained in his dissertation "Marginalized Voices", "the Charismatic Movement's effect upon the Eastern Orthodox Churches was negligible" in comparison to its effect on other Churches.<ref>Abstract, Fr. Timothy Cremeens, ''Marginalized voices: The history of the charismatic movement in the Orthodox Church in North America 1968-1993'', 2011, http://search.proquest.com/docview/908436164</ref>