“Would that each day we say to the Lord, ‘I surrender to You, O Lord, my life: Let my heart and my soul and my body and my thoughts, my night and my day, and my life be all Yours. Let it be fruitful.” – Mother Irene (Tamav Irini) #goodshepherd #dailyreadings #coptic #copticorthodox #love
“As though shut in within the gross prison-house of the body, wishes to be loosed, that he may begin to be with Christ. But he that will be set free, let him come to the Temple, let him come to Jerusalem, let him wait for the Lord, let him embrace Him with good work as …
“Love is the passport with which man passes through all the heavenly doors without obstacle.” – St. John Chrysostom . “The greater the love that dwells in a man, the greater the man in whom it dwells.” – St. Augustine #love #lovecoversamultitudeofsins #loveoneanother #dailyreadings #coptic #orthodox
“Some people read books in order to find God. Yet there is a great book, the very appearance of created things. Look above you, look below you! Note it, read it! God whom you wish to find, never wrote that book with ink. Instead, He set before your eyes the things that He made. Can …
“And now, should you come unto the desert of Egypt, you will see this desert become better than any paradise, and ten thousand choirs of angels in human forms, and nations of martyrs, and companies of virgins, and all the devil’s tyranny put down, while Christ’s kingdom shines forth in its brightness.” St John Chrysostom …
