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I feel You are watching over me as if You have forgotten the whole creation- St Augustine . . #dailyreadings #copticorthodox #orthodoxy you are always on #Godsmind #Godlovesyou

I feel You are watching over me as if You have forgotten the whole creation- St Augustine . . #dailyreadings …

You can not say that any righteous man is without affliction: even if he appear to be so, yet we know not his other afflictions. So that of necessity every righteous man must pass through affliction. For it is a declaration of Christ, that the wide and broad way leads to destruction, but the strait and narrow one to life. If then it is possible to enter into life by that means, and is not by any other, then all have entered in by the narrow [way], as many as have departed unto life. – John Chrysostom . . . #GodLovesYou #TrustGod #GodIsGood #GodIsGoodAllTheTime #AllTheTimeGodIsGood #DelightInGod #Coptic #Orthodox #DailyReadings #ChurchFathers

You can not say that any righteous man is without affliction: even if he appear to be so, yet we …

“Which is better? To enter the battle of chastisement for a short period of time and get wearied from carrying the heavy burdens of our equipment of war as weapons, then rejoice for we became victorious, or remain as slaves of sin forever because we did not endure for one hour?” ~ St. Jerome “Those who drink the bitter medicine first have to drink it unwillingly, but they feel comfortable after that… You suffer now, thus is chastening… Every chastening seems to be for sorrow, however this is not the case.” ~ St. John Chrysostom #GodLovesYou #FatherlyChastening #Chastisement #Tribulations #LordHaveMercy #Coptic #Orthodox #DailyReadings #ChurchFathers

“Which is better? To enter the battle of chastisement for a short period of time and get wearied from carrying …

What, I ask, is more wonderful than the beauty of God? What thought is more pleasing and wonderful than God’s majesty? What desire is as urgent and overpowering as the desire implanted by God in a soul that is completely purified of sin and cries out in its love: I am wounded by love? The radiance of divine beauty is altogether beyond the power of words to describe. – St Basil the Great . . #love #godsbeauty #godislove #godlovesyou #dailyreadings #copticorthodox #orthodoxy

What, I ask, is more wonderful than the beauty of God? What thought is more pleasing and wonderful than God’s …

Perhaps according to the scale of human beings you are lost, but according to the scale of God you are a wonderful human being – H.H Pope Shenouda lll . . #Godlovesyou #itdoesntmatterwhatpeoplethink #wepleaseGod #notman #dailyreadings #coptic #orthodoxy #orthodox

Perhaps according to the scale of human beings you are lost, but according to the scale of God you are …