Contemplations – Page 253 – Coptic Orthodox Diocese of the Midlands, U.K.

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 and narrow one to life. If then it is possible to enter into life by that means and is not by any other then all have entered in by the narrow [way] as many as have departed unto life. – John Chrysostom . . .…

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 and narrow one to life. If then it is possible to enter into life by that means and is not by any other then all have entered in by the narrow [way] as many as have departed unto life. – John Chrysostom . . .…

Nov 24, 2018

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 and narrow one to life. If then it is possible to enter into life by that means, and is not by any other, then all have entered in by the narrow [way], as many as have departed unto life. – John Chrysostom . . .…

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 and narrow one to life. If then it is possible to enter into life by that means, and is not by any other, then all have entered in by the narrow [way], as many as have departed unto life. – John Chrysostom . . .…

Nov 24, 2018

“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

“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

Nov 23, 2018

“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

“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

Nov 23, 2018

‘How does it decay? Being scourged being persecuted suffering ten thousand extremities. Yet the inward man is renewed day by day. How is it renewed? By faith by hope by a forward will finally by braving those extremities. For in proportion as the body suffers ten thousand things in the like proportion has the soul goodlier hopes and becomes brighter like gold refined in the fire more and more. And see how he brings to nothing the sorrows of this present life.’ – St John Chrysostom #coptic #orthodox #spirtuallife #copticorthodox

‘How does it decay? Being scourged being persecuted suffering ten thousand extremities. Yet the inward man is renewed day by day. How is it renewed? By faith by hope by a forward will finally by braving those extremities. For in proportion as the body suffers ten thousand things in the like proportion has the soul goodlier hopes and becomes brighter like gold refined in the fire more and more. And see how he brings to nothing the sorrows of this present life.’ – St John Chrysostom #coptic #orthodox #spirtuallife #copticorthodox

Nov 22, 2018

‘How does it decay? Being scourged, being persecuted, suffering ten thousand extremities. Yet the inward man is renewed day by day. How is it renewed? By faith, by hope, by a forward will, finally, by braving those extremities. For in proportion as the body suffers ten thousand things, in the like proportion has the soul goodlier hopes and becomes brighter, like gold refined in the fire more and more. And see how he brings to nothing the sorrows of this present life.’ – St John Chrysostom #coptic #orthodox #spirtuallife #copticorthodox

‘How does it decay? Being scourged, being persecuted, suffering ten thousand extremities. Yet the inward man is renewed day by day. How is it renewed? By faith, by hope, by a forward will, finally, by braving those extremities. For in proportion as the body suffers ten thousand things, in the like proportion has the soul goodlier hopes and becomes brighter, like gold refined in the fire more and more. And see how he brings to nothing the sorrows of this present life.’ – St John Chrysostom #coptic #orthodox #spirtuallife #copticorthodox

Nov 22, 2018