The substance and ground of the love we ought to have for God is obedience to his commandments. ~ St. Didymus the Blind #loveGod #obey #submit #dailyreadings #coptic #orthodox
“Submit in complete obedience, in accordance with God’s will, as our fathers have, especially receiving counsel with faith and trust. Humility and purity, the fear of God and persevering attentively in God’s ways: these are the greatest of all the virtues, and they cause the soul to be luminous in God through these consummate achievements.” …
“If a person relinquishes his will he can truly say, “By my God, I leapt over a wall. As for my God, His way is perfect.” (Ps 18:29-30). How wonderfully spoken! For when a person abandons his own will he sees that the way of God is without blemish but when he identifies himself with …
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then …
