“If you pray… if you love… if you suffer, then you are a human being. But if you pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you, love the one who hates you, and endure hardships with patience and hope, then you are a human being in whom Christ dwells” – H.H. Pope Shenouda III …
“For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory” – 2 Corinthians 4:17 . “I implore you, O beloved brethren, to meditate in the troubles of this life; which even though cruel, yet they are of short duration; whereas the good …
“And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake. But he who endures to the end shall be saved.” Mark 13:13 . “For the sake of His love for us and obedience to His Father, Christ joyfully took upon Himself insult and sorrow…. In like manner, when the saints become perfect, they all …
