The pleasure of evil is temporary but its pain remains. On the contrary, virtue gives lasting satisfaction and its labor is temporary – St John Chrysostom #narrowgate #lastingsatisfaction #dailyreadings #coptic #orthodox
God’s economy is directed toward a single end in each of these lives: our salvation and good repute. Even if it is divided in two with regard to time, it is united with regard to objective. Just as at first it is winter and then it is spring, and the passage of each season has …
“Whoever approaches God and truly desires to be a partner of Christ must approach with a view to this goal, namely, to be changed and transformed from his former state and attitude and become a good and new person, harboring nothing of “the old man.” For it says, “If anyone is in Christ, he is …
He, who is loving, and is perpetually attached to God, would not be harmed by the violent waves, however abundant they may be, but, on the contrary, he would emerge out of them with a new strength. – St John Chrysostom . . He treated the problem of suffering not by eliminating it, but by …
If someone speaks to you harshly, hasten to prostrate before him, lest anger find a place in your heart. If someone is unfair to you, again, prostrate before him and ask for his forgiveness. – Abba Isaiah of El Eskeet . . #humility #coptic #orthodox #dailyreadings
