“If you choose, O preachers, to declare your own glory, you would fall. But if you choose to declare His glory, you, yourselves would be built, while building.” – St. Augustine #declareHisglory #glorifyGod #giveGodtheglory #bebuiltwhilebuilding #dailyreadings #coptic #orthodox
“The end of all things is concealed from us. For in the end of all is the end of each, and in the end of each is the end of all [on the last day]. Whereas this time is uncertain and always in prospect, we may advance day by day as if summoned, reaching forward …
“He who is unable to deliver a sermon, is able to be a sermon; the sermon offers a theoretical teaching, and the good example offers a teaching in practice.” Pope Shenouda III #DepartureofStPaultheFirstHermit #AnbaPaul #Saints #preachwithyourlife #GospelofPeace #gladtidings #dailyreadings #coptic #orthodox
Man is very harsh in his dealings. We sometimes become easily angry with our friends and from the least behaviour cut our relation with them, forgetting the former love between us. We become intolerant quickly and cannot endure. One action from people makes us unjustly judge their whole life and not change our minds. But …
“Trust that He who brought Jonah out of the belly of the whale after three days, will surely bring you out of the depths of affliction” – H.H. Pope Shenouda III #fastofnineveh #jonahsfast #jonah #Hehasansweredme #outofthedepths #Hewillsaveme #dailyreadings #coptic #orthodox
