Nothing can transform people the way love can – Fr Dawoud Lamei . . #love #copticorthodox #coptic #orthodoxy #orthodox #dailyreadings
“As salt is needed for all kinds of food, so humility is needed for all kinds of virtues.” – St. Isaac the Syrian #salt #virtues #dailyreadings #coptic #copticorthodox #fasting #lent
“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 …
