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

+ If any woman should abandon her husband and wish to depart, or any man
abandon his wife and wish to depart, let them be anathema!
- A Canon of an Early Church Council
+ You will find among us Christians both men and women growing old, living in
chastity, in the hope of living in closer communion with God.
- St. Athenagoras of Athens
+ When we teach our children to be good, to be gentle, to be forgiving, to
be generous, to love their fellow man, to regard this present age as nothing
(all these are attributes of God); we install virtue in their souls, and reveal the
image of God within them.
- St. John Chrysostom
+ Our task is to educate both ourselves and our children in godliness, otherwise
what answer will we have before God's judgment seat?
- St. John Chrysostom
+ Christ, Himself, although a virgin in the flesh, was in spirit a monogamist,
having only one wife, the Church.
- St. Jerome
+ Let us be greatly concerned for our wives and our children, and for ourselves
as well. The good God Himself will bring this work to perfection, so that all of us
may be counted worthy of the blessings He has promised.
- St. John Chrysostom
+ Marriage, as a sacred bond, must be kept pure from anything that might defile
it. We should rise from our slumber with the Lord, and retire to sleep with
thanksgiving and prayer.
- St. Clement of Alexandria
+ The wife who loves her husband must be furnished similarly to her husband to
travel through this life. If she carries simplicity and chaste seriously, she has
sufficient provisions for the journey to heaven.
- St. Clement of Alexandria
+ A life lived in the world can be as good, in the eyes of God, as one spent in a
monastery. It is indeed only the keeping of God's Commandments, love of all,
and a true sense of humility that matter, wherever we are.
- Elder Macarius of Optina
+ Love can turn to hate if there creep in too many reasons for disrespect.
- St. Clement of Alexandria
+ If the Lord had commanded virginity, it would have seemed as though He
condemned marriage.
St. Jerome