“You are truly called for Christ; and about you, God say: “Do not touch My anointed; And do My prophets no harm” (15). You have become “anointed” through receiving the seal of the Holy Spirit. All things have been done in you to be like (Christ); for you are an image of Christ.” – St. …
“Humility is to deem all humankind better than you, being certain in your heart that you are more sinful than all.” Saint Antony the Great #humility #submission #fearofGod #dailyreadings #coptic #orthodox
“Hypocrisy, because it is a counterfeit of the good, possesses nothing vital of the good it simulates, but is only its dead bones, so to speak …. If we listen with wisdom to what the present passage wants to tell us, we will understand that every simulated righteousness is a dead righteousness, hence no righteousness …
Oh God, teach me how to seek You above all, and not anything else but You, because He who seeks You finds everything in You – St Ephrem the Syrian . . #coptic #orthodox #dailyreadings #thereisnonebesidesYou #everygoodnessisinHim #everythinginHim
The man who is perpetually absorbed in this present life, and yet not with eternity, or with death, or with what comes after death, can easily be oblivious of the soul. The rich fool didn’t think of death but thought of a long lifetime ahead of him… the man who walks in the leisure and …
