“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
“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
When a man strives within himself to have his heart humbled and his thought not agitated, but peaceful, then all the snares of the enemy are without effect and there resides the Lord Himself. “His place is in peace” (Psalm 75:3). – St. Seraphim of Sarov #Dailyreadings #egypt #prayforegypt #forgiveness #love #coptic #copticorthodox #martyrs
“I cannot persuade myself that without love to others, and without, as far as rests with me, peaceableness towards all, I can be called a worthy servant of Jesus Christ.” – St. Basil the Great #love #dailyreading #saviour #servant #coptic #copticorthodox
“Escape to God alone if you want to escape from Him. Escape by confessing and not by hiding. Tell Him ‘You are my shelter’ and so let the only love, which grants life, to grow inside you.” – St. Augustine #shelter #love #mercy #coptic #copticorthodox #dailyreadings
