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“The Will is like a brass wall between man and God. It is like a stumbling stone by which we go against and oppose the Will of God”. Abba Poemen. . . . . . “Therefore eternal and divine things are to be followed, and all things must be done after the will of God, that we may follow the divine footsteps and teachings of our Lord” St Cyprian of Carthage #BreadofLife #camedownfromheaven #WillofGod #oursalvation #eternallife #Eucharist #ThyWillbedone #HolyFifty #dailyreadings #coptic #orthodox

“The Will is like a brass wall between man and God. It is like a stumbling stone by which we …

“If then you have become the throne of God, and the Heavenly Charioteer has seated Himself within you, and your soul is entirely transformed into a spiritual eye, and is made into light; if you too are nourished with the heavenly food of that Spirit and have drunk of the Living Water, and have put on the secret garment of light – if your inward being has experienced all these things and is established in rich unshakable faith, then you are living the Eternal Life, and your soul even in this present time rests with Christ.”St Macarius the Great#Lightoftheworld #childrenofGod #childrenoflight #willofGod #holiness #kiahk #NewYear #dailyreadings #coptic #orthodox

“If then you have become the throne of God, and the Heavenly Charioteer has seated Himself within you, and your …

“It is the Lord Himself who sows, for He dwells in the apostles. It is He who also harvests, and without Him they are counted as nothing… For the Lord says (John 15:5) “Without Me you can do nothing”. St Augustine #preaching #willofgod #coptic #orthodox #dailyreadings

“It is the Lord Himself who sows, for He dwells in the apostles. It is He who also harvests, and …

“Lord, turn Thou our faces away from the world by the desire of Thee, that we may see it for what it is, and no longer believe in a shadow as in truth. Fashion us anew, O Lord, and renew and give our mind zeal before death, so that in the hour of our departure we may know the purpose of our entrance and departure from this world. And so, having finished that work for which Thy will first called us to come into this life, may we then hope, with our mind full of confidence, to receive those great things which, according to the Scriptures’ promise, Thy love hath prepared in the second, new creation, things the remembrance of which is guarded in the faith of Thy mysteries.” St Isaac the Syrian #WillofGod #oursalvation #HolyFifty #Christisrisen #TrulyHeisrisen #dailyreadings #coptic #orthodox

“Lord, turn Thou our faces away from the world by the desire of Thee, that we may see it for …

“Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father” Galatians 1:3,4 . “What may not the hearts of believers promise themselves as the gift of God’s grace, when for their sake God’s only Son, co-eternal with the Father, was not content only to be born as man from human stock but even died at the hands of the men he had created?” St. Augustine #salvation #willofGod #ChristgaveHimselfforoursins #fastoftheNativity #Advent #dailyreadings #coptic #orthodox

“Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for our sins, …