You can not say that any righteous man is without affliction: even if he appear to be so, yet we know not his other afflictions. So that of necessity every righteous man must pass through affliction. For it is a declaration of Christ, that the wide and broad way leads to destruction, but the strait …
“Remember that you are a child of God and that you ought to have His image; walk as is appropriate for a child of God.” – H.H. Pope Shenouda III #coptic #orthdox #dailyreadings #footsteps #christianity