“It often happens that Satan will insidiously commune with you in your heart and say: ‘Think of the evil you have done; your soul is full of lawlessness, you are weighed down by many grievous sins.’ Do not let him deceive you when he does this and do not be led to despair on the …
He who busies himself with the sins of others, or judges his brother on suspicion, has not yet even begun to repent or to examine himself so as to discover his own sins – St Maximus the Confessor . . #looktoyoursins #donotjudge #examineyourself #repent #dailyreadings #coptic #orthodox #lent #lentjourney
The whole life of the Christian is a holy longing -St. Augustine . . #seekhim #blessedarethosewhohungerandthirst #thirstforhim who #thirstforyou #coptic #orthodox #dailyreadings #lent #lentjourney
For this death is not death, but only a kind of emigration and translation from the worse to the better, from earth to heaven, from men to angels, and archangels, and Him who is the Lord of angels and archangels. – St John Chrysostom . . #hope #comfort #heaven #life #beingwithhimforever #nomoretears #nomoresorrow #home #dailyreadings …
“We should be ashamed, beloved, we should be ashamed and sigh over our extreme languor. He kept waiting for thirty-eight years without getting what he hoped; yet in spite of that he did not retreat. He did not fail because of negligence on his part. He failed, rather, because of the jostling, the violence and …
