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 …
“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
‘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 …
“There is nothing under the sky that disturbs or bothers me. For I’m protected in that impregnable fortress inside the secure refuge safe in the arms of mercies and I’ve acquired a fountain of consolation.” – H.H. Pope Cyril (Kyrillos) VI #christianity #dailyreading #coptic #copticorthodox #orthodox
“The word of God, so divine, does not enter into them, and does not support them so as to be blessed with the joyful fruit of virtue. Such people are like the wayside trodden upon by the defiled spirits, and trampled upon by Satan himself. They therefore, do not bring forth any sanctified fruits because …
