“It is enough for You to know, for You are not like those who love and forget. If God did not love sinners, He would not have descended from the heavens to the earth.” St. Augustine #raisingLazarus #Resurrection #JesusChrist #TheResurrectionandTheLife #dailyreadings #coptic #orthodox
“Patient waiting is necessary that we may fulfil what we have begun to be and, through God‘s help, that we may obtain what we hope for and believe.” – St. Cyrpian #hope #perseverance #patience #dailyreadings #coptic #orthodox
Then, because he had said, “Whoever would save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it,” Jesus makes a strict distinction between salvation and destruction. This was to prevent anyone from imagining the one destruction and the other salvation to be all the same thing in the …
“Once you have set out to follow Christ’s way, do not promise yourself worldly prosperity. He walked through hard things but promised great things. Follow Him. Do not think too much about the way but more about the goal ahead of you. You will have to put up with tough conditions on your journey through …
The power of our Christianity is closely and deeply tied to our faith and our relationship with the Holy Cross, and its apparition in our lives is a powerful force against the devil, materialism and worldly desires. The Cross is a power that transforms envy to love, revenge to forgiveness and flaunting to simplicity. The Cross then fills you …
