“Love unites us to God. Love hides a multitude of sins. Love puts up with everything and is always patient. There is nothing vulgar about love, nothing arrogant…Without love, nothing can please God.” – St Clement Of Rome #Pentecost #LoveIsTheGreatest #GodIsLove #Coptic #Orthodox #DailyReadings #ChurchFathers
“For faith indeed and hope, when the good things believed and hoped for have come, cease….How then is love the greater? In that those pass away. If now so great is the virtue of love, with good reason does St Paul add and say, Follow after love.” -St John Chrysostom #ChristIsRisen #TrulyHeIsRisen #HolyFifty #HolyPentecost #FaithHopeLove …
“There are then three means whereby we shall reach the Divine courts that are above and enter the Church of the firstborn; namely, by practice in virtue of every kind, by faith in rightness of doctrine, and by hope of life to come. Is there any one else than our Lord Jesus the Christ, who …
“The soul, which has the true fear groans saying, ‘I will sing of mercy and justice; to you O lord, I will sing praises. I will behave wisely in a perfect way. Oh, when will You come to me?’ (Ps. 101: 1). She walks in a perfect way, so she does not fear, for love …
“The whole of your life does not equate to a twinkling of an eye if compared to eternity which has no end. What is the whole of your life on earth but a preparation and readiness for that eternity, the life of immortality? It is for you then to be convinced of the importance of …