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“The soul that really loves God and Christ, though it may do ten thousand righteousnesses, esteems itself as having wrought nothing, by reason of its insatiable aspiration after God. Though it should exhaust the body with fastings, with watchings, its attitude towards the virtues is as if it had not yet even begun to labour for them.” – Saint Macarius the Great . #FastingAndPraying #GiveToTheLord #Deeds #Fast #Prayer #Lent #Easter #Righteousness #Righteous #Proverbs #CopticOrthodox #DailyReadings #Coptic #Orthodox

“The soul that really loves God and Christ, though it may do ten thousand righteousnesses, esteems itself as having wrought …

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“Service is an expression of love overflowing from the heart, it is a desire to serve.” – Pope Shenouda . #Deeds #Service #Truth #Light #FollowGod #ListenToGod #WaitForGod #Coptic #Orthodox #DailyReadings #CopticOrthodox #Lent

“Service is an expression of love overflowing from the heart, it is a desire to serve.” – Pope Shenouda . …

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“Christ suffered for our sakes, and we ought to suffer with Him also. We want to suffer with Him, and the Holy Bible tells us, ‘If indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together’. Would that we be crucified with Christ” – Pope Shenouda . #HeGaveUsLove #UnconditionalLove #WeAreHis #IAmYours #CopticOrthodox #DailyReadings #Coptic #Orthodox #Love

“Christ suffered for our sakes, and we ought to suffer with Him also. We want to suffer with Him, and …

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He honored the Father all the more, not that you may honor him less but that you may marvel all the more. Here we learn that he is truly a son who honors his father more than all else. No one could have honored God the Father more than God the Son. The measure of his sublimity corresponds with the depth of his humility. – St John Chrysostom . #HumbleYourselfBeforeTheLord #Humility #Humble #CopticOrthodox #DailyReadings #Orthodox #Coptic #HumbleYourself

He honored the Father all the more, not that you may honor him less but that you may marvel all …

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Whom else do the faithful peoples serve and the princes of the church worship but Christ, in whose name they also receive their salvation? The Word has predicted all this through Isaiah by saying, My servants shall be called by a new name, which will be blessed on the earth; for they shall bless the true God, and those who swear upon the earth shall swear in the name of the true God. And he adds, Behold, my servants shall eat, but you shall hunger; behold, my servants shall drink, but you shall thirst; behold, my servants shall exult with joy, but you shall be ashamed and shall cry for the vexation of your spirit. – Hippolytus . #BowDown #ServeYou #DailyReadings #Genesis #CopticOrthodox #Coptic #Orthodox #GreatLent

Whom else do the faithful peoples serve and the princes of the church worship but Christ, in whose name they …

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