Church Fathers V3 - Fr George Grube - Saint Mina Coptic Orthodox ...
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+ Glory is like the human shadow; if you follow, it runs away, if you run away,<br />
it follows.<br />
- St. Martin of Braga<br />
+ Make Christ a partner with you in your earthly possessions, so that He may<br />
also make you a fellow- heir with Him in His heavenly Kingdom.<br />
- St. Cyprian of Carthage<br />
+ He who chooses transient things will be without eternal things. He who<br />
prefers earthly things will not have heavenly things.<br />
- Lactantius<br />
+ Rather than laying down our souls for money , we lay down our money for<br />
our souls.<br />
- Tertullian<br />
+ Those who glory in their looks, not in their hearts, dress to please others.<br />
- St. Clement of Alexandria<br />
+ Christians have no country on earth, and this enables us to scorn earthly<br />
possessions.<br />
- St. Clement of Alexandria<br />
+ If someone who shows excessive love of money gets gold and silver, his<br />
need for it grows, and the more it flows in, the more it increases his desire.<br />
The whole world might just satisfy one greedy, power- hungry man, but then<br />
again, it might not.<br />
- St. Gregory Palamas<br />
+ Guard yourself from that mother of all vices, which is self- love or a mindless<br />
love for the body. For it gives birth ...to the three , and major, impassioned<br />
thoughts. I mean those of gluttony, avarice, and self- esteem, which take as<br />
their pretext some imagined need of the body. All other vices are generated<br />
by these three. You must therefore be on your guard, and fight against self- love<br />
with great vigilance. For when this vice is eradicated, all the others are wiped<br />
away too.<br />
- St. Maximos the Confessor<br />
+ We must pray that we may be constantly and firmly assured in our hearts<br />
that everything we have-both of soul and body, in both prosperity and<br />
adversity-comes from God, from His power, and not from nature, chance,<br />
or from ourselves.<br />
- St. John of Kronstadt<br />
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