Church Fathers V3 - Fr George Grube - Saint Mina Coptic Orthodox ...
Church Fathers V3 - Fr George Grube - Saint Mina Coptic Orthodox ...
Church Fathers V3 - Fr George Grube - Saint Mina Coptic Orthodox ...
You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles
YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.
+ We leave undone what we know we should do, and we do what we know we<br />
shouldn't do. Therefore we should not only pray for forgiveness when we have<br />
sinned, saying "Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors," but we should<br />
also pray for guidance to keep us from sinning. We should pray, "and lead us<br />
not into temptation."<br />
- St. Augustine<br />
+ Sin is the serpent's deadly weapon.<br />
- Ausonius<br />
+ I preach and think that it is more bitter to sin against Christ than to suffer the<br />
torments of hell.<br />
- St. John Chrysostom<br />
+ Wretch that I am! I do not remember how God observes the mind and<br />
hears the voice of the soul. I return consciously to sin, telling myself that<br />
God is indeed merciful and will have patience with me. And when I was not<br />
immediately struck down, I did not stop, but rather despised His patient, long-<br />
suffering.<br />
- St. Peter of Alexandria<br />
+ Let every man take daily stock regarding the day's sins and the night's doings,<br />
and if he has sinned, let him stop doing so, and if he has not, let him refrain<br />
from boasting of it! Let this daily observation be a safeguard against sinning, let<br />
us note and write down our actions and impulses of the soul as though we had<br />
to report them to each other.<br />
- St. Anthony of Egypt<br />
+ Repentance of sin is the daughter of hope and the renunciation of despair.<br />
- St. John of the Ladder<br />
+ With us, it is a sin even to consider a crime. You fear witnesses. We fear even<br />
our own conscience.<br />
- Mark Minucius Felix<br />
+ My child. If I were permitted to see my sins, three or four men would not be<br />
enough to weep for them.<br />
- The Desert <strong>Fathers</strong><br />
+ Our Lord says, "He that sins is the slave of sin."<br />
- St. Basil the Great<br />
+ Repentance is returning to the Lord by the practice of good works that are<br />
contrary to the sin committed.<br />
- St. John of the Ladder<br />
- 190 -