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“Let us sing a new song, not with our lips but with our lives” St Augustine . . #praise #thanksgiving #gratitude #ineverycondition #inallthings #coptic #dailyreadings #orthodox

“Let us sing a new song, not with our lips but with our lives” St Augustine . . #praise #thanksgiving …

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“The only honour which befits God is not in burning sacrifice, but by offering thanksgiving to Him through hymns and praises, because He created us.” -St. Yustinus The Martyr . #Sacrifice #PraiseHim #Thanksgiving #CopticOrthodox #coptic #orthodox #dailyreadings

“The only honour which befits God is not in burning sacrifice, but by offering thanksgiving to Him through hymns and …

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“Continue earnestly in prayer, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving;” Colossians 4:2 . “The highest level of thanksgiving is to give thanks to God over tribulations. We thank God over the tribulations from which He saved us…. But, what is greater than this is also thank Him over the prevailing tribulations which we bear and live in. By faith we believe it is for our good. To endure and bear tribulations, is a virtue. To be content with the tribulation and accept it is a greater virtue. And what is more important is to give thanks over the tribulation with complete surrender and joy. If we thank God for the gifts only, then our love is for the gifts not for God the giver Himself. But if we give thanks to God in tribulation we prove that we love God Himself and not for His gifts.” H.H Pope Shenouda III #prayer #thanksgiving #dailyreadings #coptic #orthodox

“Continue earnestly in prayer, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving;” Colossians 4:2 . “The highest level of thanksgiving is to …

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“speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ” Ephesians 5:19,20 . “What state can be more blessed than to imitate on earth the choruses of Angels?—to begin the day with prayer, and honour our Maker with hymns and songs?—as the day brightens, to betake ourselves, with prayer attending on it throughout, to our labours, and to sweeten our work with hymns, as if with salt? Soothing hymns compose the mind to a cheerful and calm state.” St Basil the Great #Hymns #praise #thanksgiving #spiritualsongs #dailyreadings #coptic #orthodox

“speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the …

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