Each evangelist has placed the blessings of poverty first, for it is the first in order, and the purest, as it were, of the virtues; for he who has despised the world shall reap an eternal reward. Now can any one obtain the reward of the heavenly kingdom who, overcome by the desires of the …
Leave all your desires. He who made heaven and earth is more beautiful than all; he who made all things is better than all; he will be to you everything you love. Don’t let what was made take such a hold of you that you lose him by which you yourself were made. – St …
Great indeed was the faith of Abraham. For while in the case of Abel, and of Noah, and of Enoch, there was an opposition of reasonings only, and it was necessary to go beyond human reasonings; in this case it was necessary not only to go beyond human reasonings, but to manifest also something more. …
“We have a new world through the coming of our Saviour, in whom all things became new for us.” – St. Cyril the Great . #NewYear #CopticNewYear #Nayrouz #CopticOrthodox #Coptic #Orthodox #DailyReadings
When then these heavens sent forth their voices through all lands, and did wonderful things, while the Lord flashed and thundered from them by miracles and commandments, the gods were thought to have come down from heaven to men. – Saint Augustine . #RescueUs #Heaven #CopticOrthodox #Coptic #Orthodox #DailyReadings
