Church Fathers V3 - Fr George Grube - Saint Mina Coptic Orthodox ...

+ Live each day as if you were dying.
- St. Anthony of Egypt
+ It is true when they say that a man tolerates least of all his own well-being.
Days of happiness, days of success, when everything goes according to one’s
wishes - how many times have such days woven a fatal net which captures
man’s soul?
- Archbishop John of Riga
+ If a man is unable to check the unnecessary desires of the appetite, how will
he be able to extinguish the fires of carnal lust?
- St. John Cassian
+ Do not concern yourselves in the affairs of this life, for you are fighting
for God.
- St. Ambrose
+ As St. Peter wrote in his letter, “When you suffer for righteousness sake,
blessed are you, for you will become sharers in the sufferings of Christ”
(1 Peter 3:14,4:13).
- St, Isaac the Syrian
+ Do not feel disgust at the loathsomeness of different illnesses, for you too are
clothed in the flesh.
- St. Isaac the Syrian
+ If, while performing bodily fasts, we are entangled in the most dangerous
vices of the soul, our humiliation of the flesh in fasting, will do us no good
whatsoever.
- St. John Cassian
+ Just as healthy people are not sinless, so too, God sometimes allows truly
righteous ones to experience suffering “as a model for the weak”.
- St. Basil the Great
+ What toil we must endure, what fatigue, while we are attempting to scale
hills and the peaks of mountains. Why? So that we may ascend to heaven!
If you consider the promised reward, what you endure is less. Immortality is
given to the one who perseveres, eternal life is offered to you, the Lord
promises you His Kingdom.
- St. Cyprian of Carthage
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