“Escape to God alone if you want to escape from Him. Escape by confessing and not by hiding. Tell Him ‘You are my shelter’ and so let the only love, which grants life, to grow inside you.” – St. Augustine #shelter #love #mercy #coptic #copticorthodox #dailyreadings
“For the sower makes no distinction in the land submitted to him but simply and indifferently casts his seed. So He Himself too makes no distinction of rich and poor, of wise and unwise, of slothful or diligent, of brave or cowardly. He plants his seed among all, fulfilling His part… Now tell me how …
“Who can hurt such a man? Who can subdue him? In prosperity he makes moral progress, and in adversity he learns to know the progress he has made. When he has an abundance of mutable goods he does not put his trust in them, and when they are taken away he gets to know whether …
“If a man surrenders himself very honestly to God’s commandments, the Holy Spirit will teach him how to purify himself and his body.” – St. Anthony the Great #coptic #dailyreading #gospel #orthdox #orthodoxy #heaven
“Affliction lasts but a short time, while peace is forever, by the grace of God the Word.” St Moses the black #ConsecrationofchurchofStGeorge #StGeorge #PrinceofMartyrs #dailyreadings #coptic #orthodox
