“The Lord knew that vanity may spring from every good thing, and therefore bids us root out the bramble of vain-gloriousness which springs in the good soil, that it choke not the fruit of fasting. For though it cannot be that fasting should not be discovered in any one, yet is it better that fasting …
“It is befitting of the divine temple to have incense of the sweetest fragrance. Every virtue is a mental incense, well received by the God of all.” – St. Cyril the Great #templeofGod #HeDwellsInsideYou #HeWalksAmongUs #HisPeople #dailyreadings #coptic #orthodox
What keeps you from giving now? Isn’t the poor man there? Aren’t your own warehouses full? Isn’t the reward promised? The command is clear: the hungry man is dying now, the naked man is freezing now, the man in debt is beaten now – and you want to wait until tomorrow? “I’m not doing any …
“We are not made for ourselves alone, we are made for the good of all our fellow creatures.” St Gregory the Theologian #preaching #KingdomofGod #Salvation #Godiswithus #dailyreadings #coptic #orthodox
If you make a request to God, trust that in the moment in which He heard you He has started to act for your sake, even before you ask- H.H Pope Shenouda lll . . #hehears #helistens #coptic #dailyreadings #orthodoxy #copticorthodox
