Church Fathers V3 - Fr George Grube - Saint Mina Coptic Orthodox ...
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+ You are not much different from cattle, except that you have intelligence;<br />
so do not glory in anything else. Do you claim to be strong? You will be beaten<br />
down by beasts. Do you claim speed? Flies are faster. Do you claim beauty?<br />
What great beauty there is in a peafowl's feathers! How are you better, then,<br />
than these? By the image of God. And where is God's image? In your mind,<br />
in your intellect?<br />
- St. Augustine<br />
+ The poverty of human intelligence is often involved in lengthy discussions<br />
because questions require more words than answers.<br />
- St. Augustine<br />
+ The Savior teaches nothing in a merely human way, but teaches His own<br />
with Divine and mystical wisdom. Therefore, we must not listen to His words<br />
with worldly ears. We must search out and learn the meaning hidden in them.<br />
For what the Lord seems to have simplified for the disciples requires even more<br />
attention than puzzling statements because of its overabundance of wisdom.<br />
- St. Clement of Alexandria<br />
+ Keep your knowledge in its proper place. Do not be ignorant of the things that<br />
are really good or seek to rise above God Himself, for He cannot be surpassed.<br />
Neither seek after anyone above the Creator, for you will not discover anyone<br />
greater than God because your Maker cannot be contained within limits.<br />
- St. Irenaeus<br />
+ We must not trust in our own wisdom but in the Lord alone. For He directs a<br />
person's steps. We are also called to show Him our ways, to reveal our plans<br />
to Him. For they aren't made straight by our own work, but by His assistance<br />
and mercy.... "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not upon your<br />
understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your<br />
paths." (Proverbs 3:5- 6).<br />
- St. Jerome<br />
+ If some students cannot learn through more difficult subjects, a kind, caring<br />
teacher will come down to their level and teach them by simpler means. Christ,<br />
the Word of God, did this. St. Paul said, "For seeing that in the wisdom knew<br />
not God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the word<br />
preached to save them that believe" (1 Corinthians 1:21).<br />
- St. Athanasius<br />
+ It is better and more profitable to belong to the simple and ignorant class...<br />
than by imagining ourselves learned and skillful, to be found among those who<br />
blaspheme against their own God by making up another god as the Father. As<br />
St. Paul said, "Knowledge puffs up but love edifies" (1 Corinthians 8:1).<br />
- St. Irenaeus<br />
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