”In heaven, God will not ask is why we sinned; He will ask us why we didn’t repent.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”I am not with you right now, but you are in my heart always.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”Prayer is a tie, a relationship between man and God. Therefore, it is not just talk, it is a heart connected to a heart.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”Prayer is a feeling of being in the presence of God. It is a partnership with the Holy Spirit and unity with God.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”Sometimes, a holy anger happens for God’s sake, but it does not have nervousness and loss of temper, it is a holy zeal.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”If you are faithful in rejecting wilful sins, God will deliver you from unwillful sins.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”If you are faithful in not judging others by words, God will enable you not to judge by thoughts, which is more difficult.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”Praise others and make them aware of your appreciation. Make them feel that you know their good deeds and admire them.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”Respect others and treat everyone politely, not only the elders or those you are obliged to regard, but also the young and those who are younger and lower in grade than you.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”The disciples rejoiced when they saw the (risen) Lord and their joy became a way of life for them and Christians after them.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”The first transfiguration of our nature is that God created us in his own image and likeness.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”Many of our brothers were lost because nobody visited them or by the time they were visited, it was too late.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”The spiritual person questions himself before he is questioned by God: What has he done for all those people whom he knew? Is there anyone among those whom he does not know, who needs his help; he ought to know them and offer his services.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”He who is led by the truth will be pleased with its leadership and nourishment and lives by it.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”In all man’s acts, it is not enough that the aim has to be holy, but also the means must be sound. Very often, man errs and fails because his means are wrong.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”God gave you your soul to be responsible for it before Him, like a steward who was entrusted with a stewardship. Are you busy with it or with others?”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”The love which does not sacrifice is a barren love, without fruit.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”The resurrection drew men’s attention to the glories of the other world; thus, the evanescent enjoyment of this perishable world diminished.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”Your nature is not evil. Evil is an intruder.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”As for the one who is self-centred, he never knows love as it should be. And if he does love, his love would not be capable of enduring as it should be.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”Bear the faults of others as God bears your faults.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”The one who likes to benefit always searches for profitability. Too much talk does not profit him, but one word could change his whole life.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”Faith is a deep inner conviction and complete confidence in God, His attributes and His work.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”Faith is not just to be mentally convinced but is an action inside the heart, to lead one through his whole life.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”Prayer is a key to Heaven, it is the language and job of Angels and it is the life of the spirituals.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”In prayer, one is elevated above materialism to meet with God.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”Prayer is a taste of God’s Kingdom, which starts here and finishes there.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”God can do everything on his own, but he wants you to work with Him, not only to work, but to toil and strive.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”Thus, suffering for the Lord becomes a measure of the glory that awaits the faithful in the eternal Kingdom.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”Love expresses its existence by labouring for the beloved one.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”The One they crucified at Golgotha and was counted as a sinner, enduring many reproaches and insults, has risen from the dead in glory, ascended to Heaven in glory and sat down at the right hand of the Father in glory.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”Let your gifts be comparable to your earnings, lest God makes your earnings comparable to your gifts.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”Love is tested through suffering, tribulation and sacrifice.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”If one loses ones inner peace, everything will look disturbed in ones’ eyes, and what is simple will seem complicated.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”The one who overcomes hardships and does not use them as an excuse, proves the truth of his inner intentions.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”A practical person who has faced reality and experienced life would perfectly understand that matters do not proceed according to his plans and preferences.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”A humble person may give up his opinion and would possibly admit that he was wrong, and rectify the error.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”A meek person deals simply with everyone and never argues much or acts stubbornly.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”There is a big difference between stubbornness and firmness in what is right. Stubbornness is the persistence on what is wrong.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”He never aimed at overcoming people but winning them. He never tried to destroy them but convince them.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”The faults of the tongue are many.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”Repentance needs a humble heart. The one who persists in his pride and dignity would not be able to repent.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”The Christians are strong because they are an image of God and God is powerful.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”The one who is full of peace could flow over to others, granting them comfort.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”God is present, everything is for good, there is an end.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”Be firm inside, steadfast in your faith, then nothing from outside will shake you.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”Live then in peace, you will be comforted and live in confidence and calm, in good health, both spiritually and physically.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”Find excuses for others and try your best to defend them in a rightful way, not through hypocrisy.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”He who deals with people according to his own mentality, without taking into consideration their own mentality and way of thinking, is not practical.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”The practical person lives in reality with all its surroundings, obstacles and problems, without ignoring anything.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”Success in not large number served people, but in those you were able to change their lives and brought them to God.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”Man needs to drink from all springs of knowledge, with wisdom and care, by examining and sifting information.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”Try and reach the heart of the one you speak with, before, you reach his mind.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”Zeal is kindling the heart and the will, as if with fire, to do what one believes to be good.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”Think, study and investigate everything, adhere to the good attributes.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”Service is an expression of love overflowing from the heart, it is a desire to serve.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”If you want your words to have their full effect, choose the appropriate time to say them.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”Speak when the ear is ready to listen to your words, and more preferable when it is eager to listen to you.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”The important thing to keep before you is that you say your word when it finds an ear ready to listen.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”In silence there may be wisdom and strength, there may be nobility and dignity.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”The world sees in our conduct, in our behaviour, the proof that we are the real children of God.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”It is not the sun which has hidden its face from the earth, but the earth which has turned its back on the sun.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”I have noticed a type of person who talks a lot but who says nothing.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”Every Goliath has a David waiting to conquer him in the name of the Lord of Hosts.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”People may fear you on account of your position or power or strength, but this does not mean that they respect you.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”Any work done by man, without the hand of God, surely leads to vain glory.”
Author: Shenouda III.
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”The disgrace of the church in the twentieth century is that more zeal is evident among Communists and cultists than among Christians.”
Author: William MacDonald
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Posted on: 2023-01-27
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”A disciple can be forgiven if he does not have great mental ability. He can be forgiven also if he does not display outstanding physical prowess. But no disciple can be excused if he does not have zeal. If his heart is not aflame with a red-hot passion for the Savior, he stands condemned.”
Author: William MacDonald
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”The law told people what to do but gave them no power to do it. It was given to reveal sin, not to be a savior.”
Author: William MacDonald
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Posted on: 2023-01-27
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”God never intended the law to be the means of giving life. Rather it was designed to bring the knowledge of sin and to convict of sin.”
Author: William MacDonald
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Posted on: 2023-01-27
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”God pours out his choicest blessings on those who are anxious that nothing shall stick to their hands. Individuals who value the rainy day above the present agony of the world will get no blessing from God.”
Author: William MacDonald
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Posted on: 2023-01-27
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”The life of faith does not follow automatically when a person becomes a Christian. It requires deliberate action on his part. This is especially true in affluent society. The believer must put himself in a position where he is compelled to trust God...It is only as he gets rid of his reserves and other false supports that he can truly launch out into the deep.”
Author: William MacDonald
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”A disciple can be forgiven if he does not have great mental ability. He can be forgiven also if he does not display outstanding physical prowess. But no disciple can be excused if he does not have zeal. If his heart is not aflame with a red-hot passion for the Savior, he stands condemned.”
Author: William MacDonald
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”If you happen to fall into temptation, do not let the guilt of sin be an obstacle to prayer. If you cease praying till you repent, you will never repent, for prayer is the door to genuine repentance.”
Author: Cyril VI
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Posted on: 2023-01-27
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”Nothing in this world can distress or perturb me, for I take refuge in the impregnable fortress of the Church. I am reassured in the bosom of God's mercies. Comfort and blessing continuously flows from Him.
The Lord's grace flutters its wings and casts away all sadness, and heals the heart with its indescribable balm. Oh, how sweet it is! No one can withstand the trials of this world without His care or power. Our Fathers compare this Grace with a mother teaching her child to walk. She stands at a distance and when she sees that he is about to fall she hurries to him and wipes every tear from his eyes. Such is the way that God's Grace deals with man. Amid his struggles, God's Grace distances itself just a little in order to train him to walk in the path of virtue. But when he is found to be saddened or discouraged, this Grace hurries to comfort and encourage him.”
Author: Cyril VI
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”He who is quick to condemn others demonstrates that he has never truly stood in the presence of the Living God.”
Author: Cyril VI
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”The virtues are analogous to separate individual pearls in need of being bound together with string; love is the string that binds all virtues. Without love there is no cohesiveness or consistency amongst the various virtues.”
Author: Cyril VI
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”When fasting, you should fast both in body and heart; abstaining from meat, gossip and slander...The fasting tongue is better than the fasting stomach, and when the heart abstains from wrath, that is better than both.”
Author: Cyril VI
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”When I was young I prayed for wisdom and love; but growing up, I learned to pray for the Wisdom of Jesus our Lord and the Love of the Crucified Jesus, our King and Savior.”
Author: Cyril VI
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”Prayer can do all things, for it moves the Hand that manages the whole universe.”
Author: Cyril VI
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”I prayed for a pure heart, it took me a long time and a hard struggle to discover that prayer itself is the only road to a pure heart.”
Author: Cyril VI
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”Prayer is the storage of grace and backbone of blessings, it controls anger and conquers the spirit.”
Author: Cyril VI
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”A heart that has no guard, no watcher, no preparation and no armour becomes a target for strange thoughts.”
Author: Cyril VI
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”Listen before you speak, think about what you just heard, and then you may talk.”
Author: Cyril VI
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”There are no bad days and good days, but there are days of prayer and days without prayer. Those without prayer are empty and void because they have been filled with our desires and lusts.”
Author: Cyril VI
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”The Holy Spirit will make you clean. Don't let the devil make you
feel guilty, and don't let him make you feel sorry for yourself.”
Author: Cyril VI
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”Offer unto all a bright image of your holy church, her true orthodox faith, her glorious and wonderful history and her profound and ever-felt influence in the Christian world.”
Author: Cyril VI
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Posted on: 2023-01-27
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”Rest assured and do not think too much about any matter. Leave it to God who is in control. Have you known anyone who has trusted in God and was let down? Heaven forbid.”
Author: Cyril VI
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”Do not keep your thoughts hidden but struggle to purify your thoughts through confession.”
Author: Cyril VI
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”Be not slothful about going to Church, especially on Sunday. Do not remain in bed saying it is a day to rest and be lazy. Is it not more worthy to treat your Lord as you would one of your friends? Be not slothful.”
Author: Cyril VI
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”Fasting is a weapon the Prophets have used, for Moses, Elijah, David, Ezra, and Nehemiah have all fasted. Even the Gentiles fasted, entreating the mercy of God, like the inhabitants of Nineveh who fasted and the Lord did cast His wrath away from them.”
Author: Cyril VI
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”The path leading to heaven is both wide and narrow. It is wide because it can accommodate the worst sinners of this world. However, it is narrow because if you desire to walk in it you cannot bear to carry even one sin.”
Author: Cyril VI
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Posted on: 2023-01-27
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”If we are not spiritually awake we fall asleep, and if we sleep the enemy (the devil) comes and plants in us whatever he wishes.”
Author: Cyril VI
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”Start your day worshipping God in prostration twenty or thirty times or as many times as possible, for among all other virtues undertaken by people, there is none better than this one.”
Author: Cyril VI
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”Prayer transforms God’s anger into blessings and there is nothing it cannot overcome. Prayer is the key to heaven.”
Author: Cyril VI
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”Prayer is a safe road you walk on so no darkness will catch up with you, but rather leads you to a place of comfort.”
Author: Cyril VI
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”Everything in your life should have order and discipline because our God is a God of order and discipline. When this is so there will be blessings and grace.”
Author: Cyril VI
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”Have order in your life while eating, drinking, as you sit, in your clothing, in your behavior, in your laughter, in your prayer, while fasting, in your hymns, in your speech, and in all your dealings.”
Author: Cyril VI
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Posted on: 2023-01-27
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”You should pray softly to God. One should often read a psalm or two, the Gospel and some litanies. This practice accords great rewards.”
Author: Cyril VI
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”God and men love the humble, and the demons fear their demeanor. Even the Angels and Saints love them. God gives grace to the humble.”
Author: Cyril VI
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”Avoid evil Relationships, for this corrupts good thoughts. Do not be talkative, for the more you talk, the more likely you are to sin.”
Author: Cyril VI
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”Do not give alms for the sake of self-glorification or pride. The Gospel says let not your left hand know that you right hand is doing.”
Author: Cyril VI
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”Be obedient to your superiors, even if they are not of good character. Adhere to humility, for he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.”
Author: Cyril VI
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”Do not give advantage to a high-ranking person over a less important one. That is, do not keep a poor man waiting while you attend to a dignitary. Do not cheat your conscience.”
Author: Cyril VI
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”Read the Holy Bible with care. Give it time, as you do with newspapers, for the work of God is sweeter than hone and the honeycomb.”
Author: Cyril VI
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Posted on: 2023-01-27
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”During the Divine Liturgy, stand humbly. Do not just listen to sweet voices. Remember you are standing before the Lord, and he expects you to ask him for grace and blessings of which he will give you freely.”
Author: Cyril VI
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Posted on: 2023-01-27
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”Be as an active merchant who knows his gains from his losses and therefore, try to discern whether you received more grace today than yesterday, and the day before that.”
Author: Cyril VI
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”Do not reflect too much on the affairs of life. Do not worry about anything. Cast your burdens upon the Lord, and He shall sustain you.”
Author: Cyril VI
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”As you care for your body you should care for your soul. It is your duty to do so.”
Author: Cyril VI
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”Every believer is a soldier in the army of salvation. He has duties to fulfill so as to be praised by his leader and receive a reward. Put your whole armor to fight against the wiles of the devil.”
Author: Cyril VI
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”Begin fighting against old habits to eliminate them one by one. Start a war against lying, fight against oaths [swearing], drive out slander and so on, one by one until you conquer, by the grace of Jesus, all bad habits and become a new man.”
Author: Cyril VI
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”My Lord and God, Jesus Christ, make me fit to walk the same road as the saints. Help us to keep strong in out faith, follow the commandments, and to despise all materialistic goods of this world.”
Author: Cyril VI
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Posted on: 2023-01-27
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”Know that your adversary the devil is a roaring lion who walks about seeking to devour one of you. Resist him by being steadfast in your faith or this enemy will plant deceit among you.”
Author: Cyril VI
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Posted on: 2023-01-27
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”Pour out your hearts and souls in front of God in order for the power of darkness to pass away from us.”
Author: Cyril VI
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”Let us take insults and use them to help us be modest.”
Author: Cyril VI
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”I am going to stay in the monastery and pray and beseech Jesus Christ to look upon me with His mercy and to prepare the way for me. I sought the opinions of the faithful fathers, I revealed my thoughts to them, I searched the books of the saints and, I celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the monastery. I hope that God will facilitate this matter according to His will. Whatever may come from the enemy, may the Lord cause it to fail. Rest assured and do not reflect on the matter too much. Leave it in God’s hands, for man cannot prevent anything that the Lord has ordained to happen.”
Author: Cyril VI
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Posted on: 2023-01-27
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”Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven.”
Author: Ephrem The Syrian
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Blessed the one who continually humbles himself willingly; he will be crowned by the One who willingly humbled himself for our sake.”
Author: Ephrem The Syrian
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”When you begin to read or listen to the Holy Scriptures, pray to God thus: "Lord Jesus Christ, open the ears and eyes of my heart so that I may hear Thy words and understand them, and may fulfill Thy will." Always pray to God like this, that He might illumine your mind and open to you the power of His words. Many, having trusted in their own reason, have turned away into deception.”
Author: Ephrem The Syrian
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”Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress,/And you shall sleep restful nights”
Author: Ephrem The Syrian
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Anyone who wants to be an example to others, must first examine himself.”
Author: Ephrem The Syrian
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”The word of God is a tree of life that offers us blessed fruit from each of its branches. It is like that rock which was struck open in the wilderness, from which all were offered spiritual drink. Be glad then that you are overwhelmed, and do not be saddened because he has overcome you. A thirsty person is happy when drinking, and not depressed, because the spring is inexhaustible. You can satisfy your thirst without exhausting the spring; then when you thirst again, you can drink from it once more.”
Author: Ephrem The Syrian
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”No one is truly poor but except the one who lacks the truth.”
Author: Ephrem The Syrian
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”O Lord and Master of my life, take from me the spirit of sloth, meddling, lust of power, and idle talk. But give rather the spirit of chastity, humility, patience and love to Thy servant. Yea, O Lord and King, grant me to see my own sins and not to judge my brother; for Thou art blessed unto ages of ages. Amen.”
Author: Ephrem The Syrian
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Be a lamp in brightness, and make the works of darkness cease, so that whenever your doctrine shines, no one may dare to heed the desires of darkness.”
Author: Ephrem The Syrian
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”The fear of God illumines the soul, annihilates evil, weakens the passions, drives darkness from the soul and makes it pure. The fear of God is the summit of wisdom. Where it is not you will find nothing good. Whoever does not have the fear of God is open to diabolical falls.”
Author: Ephrem The Syrian
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Scripture brought me to the Gate of Paradise, and the mind stood in wonder as it entered.”
Author: Ephrem The Syrian
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”If you wish to help someone, give secretly and avoid arrogance.”
Author: Ephrem The Syrian
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”If you are an ardent reader, seek not brilliant and erudite texts; otherwise the demon of haughtiness will strike your heart. But like a wise bee that gathers honey from flowers, so also through your reading obtain healing for your soul.”
Author: Ephrem The Syrian
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Whoever fears God stands above all manner of fear. He has become a stranger to all the fear of this world and placed it far from himself, and no manner of trembling comes near him.”
Author: Ephrem The Syrian
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Don't let your eyes look here and there, and don't look on someone elses' beauty, so that the devil will not conquer you with the help of your eyes.”
Author: Ephrem The Syrian
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”It is blasphemy if you pray before God while you are full of anger.”
Author: Ephrem The Syrian
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Who is far from love is a bad state, and to be pitied. He passes his days in a delirious dream, far from God, deprived of light, and he lives in darkness ... Whoever does not have the love of Christ is an enemy of Christ. He walks in darkness and is easily lead into any sin.”
Author: Ephrem The Syrian
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”O Lord, we cannot go to the pool of Siloe to which you sent the blind man. But we have the chalice of Your Precious Blood, filled with life and light. The purer we are, the more we receive.”
Author: Ephrem The Syrian
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Prayer is converse with God, equal honor with the Angels, progress in good things, averting of evils, righting of sinners.”
Author: Ephrem The Syrian
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Blessed the one who has become a good spiritual net and caught many for the good Lord, such a one will greatly praised by the Lord.”
Author: Ephrem The Syrian
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Yea, O Lord and King, grant me to see my own sin and not to judge my brother, for You are blessed from all ages to all ages. Amen”
Author: Ephrem The Syrian
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Like the apple of Thine eye preserve me, O Lord God; defend me and beneath Thy wings shelter me from temptations.”
Author: Ephrem The Syrian
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Blessed the one who meditates on death each day and destroys the base passions lurking in the vines of the heart, for he will be consoled in the moment of separation.”
Author: Ephrem The Syrian
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”You victorious martyrs who endured torments gladly for the sake of God and Savior, you who have boldness of speech toward the Lord Himself, you saints, intercede for us who are timid and sinful men, full of sloth, that the grace of Christ may come upon us, and enlighten the hearts of all of us so that we may love Him.”
Author: Ephrem The Syrian
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”The seed, swollen with moisture, burst asunder its covering of soil and out peers the blade of wheat, full of symbols. So faith, whose bosom is filled with goodly fruits, is a blade of praise.”
Author: Ephrem The Syrian
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees.”
Author: Gregory of Nyssa
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Who gives you the day will give you also the things necessary for the day.”
Author: Gregory of Nyssa
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”If we truly think of Christ as our source of holiness, we shall refrain from anything wicked or impure in thought or act and thus show ourselves to be worthy bearers of his name. For the quality of holiness is shown not by what we say but by what we do in life.”
Author: Gregory of Nyssa
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”For when one considers the universe, can anyone be so simple-minded as not to believe that the Divine is present in everything, pervading, embracing and penetrating it?”
Author: Gregory of Nyssa
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”As no darkness can be seen by anyone surrounded by light, so no trivialities can capture the attention of anyone who has his eyes on Christ.”
Author: Gregory of Nyssa
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”God's name is not known; it is wondered at.”
Author: Gregory of Nyssa
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Peace is defined as harmony among those who are divided. When, therefore, we end the civil war within our nature and cultivate peace within ourselves, we become at peace.”
Author: Gregory of Nyssa
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”May we never risk the life of our souls by being resentful or by bearing grudges.”
Author: Gregory of Nyssa
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”It is impossible for one to live without tears who considers things exactly as they are.”
Author: Gregory of Nyssa
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Concepts create idols; only wonder understands anything.”
Author: Gregory of Nyssa
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”That we may merge into the deep and dazzling darkness, vanish into it, dissolve in it forever in an unbelievable bliss beyond imagination, for absolute nothingness represents absolute bliss.”
Author: Gregory of Nyssa
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Just as at sea those who are carried away from the direction of the harbor bring themselves back on course by a clear sign, on seeing a tall beacon light or some mountain peak coming into view, so Scripture may guide those adrift on the sea of the life back into the harbor of the divine will.”
Author: Gregory of Nyssa
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Hope always draws the soul from the beauty which is seen to what is beyond, always kindles the desire for the hidden through what is constantly perceived. Therefore, the ardent lover of beauty, although receiving what is always visible as an image of what he desires, yet longs to be filled with the very stamp of the archetype.”
Author: Gregory of Nyssa
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Today the darkness begins to grow shorter and the light to lengthen, as the hours of night become fewer.... Realize that the true light is now here and, through the rays of the gospel, is illumining the whole earth.”
Author: Gregory of Nyssa
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Since with all my soul I behold the face of my beloved, therefore all the beauty of his form is seen in me.”
Author: Gregory of Nyssa
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”There is one antidote for evil passions: the purification of our souls which takes place through the mystery of godliness. The chief act of faith in this mystery is to look to Him who suffered the passion for us. The cross is the passion, so that whoever looks to it? is not harmed by the poison of desire. To look to the cross means to render one's whole life dead and crucified to the world.”
Author: Gregory of Nyssa
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”[Jews are] murderers of the Lord, assassins of the prophets, rebels against God, God haters,... advocates of the devil, race of vipers, slanderers, calumniators, dark-minded people, leaven of the Pharisees, sanhedrin of demons, sinners, wicked men, stoners, and haters of righteousness.”
Author: Gregory of Nyssa
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Sick, our nature demanded to be healed; fallen, to be raised up; dead, to rise again... Closed in the darkness, it was necessary to bring us the light; captives, we awaited a Savior... Are these things minor or insignificant? Did they not move God to descend to human nature and visit it, since humanity was in so miserable and unhappy a state?”
Author: Gregory of Nyssa
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”For truly barren is profane education, which is always in labor but never gives birth. For what fruit worthy of such pangs does philosophy show for being so long in labor? Do not all who are full of wind and never come to term miscarry before they come to the light of the knowledge of God, although they could as well become men if they were not altogether hidden in the womb of barren wisdom?”
Author: Gregory of Nyssa
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”The silent painting speaks on the walls and does much good.”
Author: Gregory of Nyssa
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Now there have been delivered to us in the Gospel three Persons and names through whom the generation or birth of believers takes place, and he who is begotten by this Trinity is equally begotten of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost —for thus does the Gospel speak of the Spirit, that “that which is born of Spirit is spirit,” and it is “in Christ “that Paul begets, and the Father is the “Father of all”.”
Author: Gregory of Nyssa
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Our human weakness is protected by the assistance of the Angels and...in all our perils, provided faith remain with us, we are defended by the aid of spiritual powers.”
Author: Gregory of Nyssa
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Concepts create idols of God, of whom only wonder can tell us anything.”
Author: Gregory of Nyssa
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”We are not entitled to such licence, I mean that of affirming what we please; we make the Holy Scriptures the rule and the measure of every tenet; we necessarily fix our eyes upon that, and approve that alone which may be made to harmonize with the intention of those writings”
Author: Gregory of Nyssa
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”But if one wishes to be absolute master of all, to obtain the entire inheritance, and to exclude his brothers from even a third or fifth part, he is not a brother, but a harsh tyrant, a rude savage, nay, more, an insatiable beast that would devour the whole sweet banquet with his own gaping mouth.”
Author: Gregory of Nyssa
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”If custom is to avail for proof of soundness, we too, surely, may advance our prevailing custom; and if they reject this, we are surely not bound to follow theirs. Let the inspired Scripture, then, be our umpire, and the vote of truth will surely be given to those whose dogmas are found to agree with the Divine words.”
Author: Gregory of Nyssa
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”... where Solomon says that 'Wisdom has built herself a house' (Prov. 9:1), he refers darkly in these words to the preparation of the flesh of the Lord: for the true Wisdom did not dwell in another's building, but built for Itself that dwelling-place from the body of the Virgin.”
Author: Gregory of Nyssa
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”For virtue is a light and buoyant thing, and all who live in her way fly like clouds as Isaiah says, and as doves with their young ones; but sin is a heavy affair, as another of the prophets says, sitting upon a talent of lead.”
Author: Gregory of Nyssa
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”The three most ancient opinions concerning God are Anarchia, Polyarchia, and Monarchia. The first two are the sport of the children of Hellas, and may they continue to be so. For Anarchy is a thing without order; and the Rule of Many is factious, and thus anarchical, and thus disorderly. For both these tend to the same thing, namely disorder; and this to dissolution, for disorder is the first step to dissolution. But Monarchy is what we hold in honor.”
Author: Gregory of Nyssa
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”The perfection of learning is to know God in such a way that, though you realize he is knowable, yet you know him as indescribable.”
Author: Hilary of Poitiers
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”No matter how sinful one may have been, if he has devotion to Mary, it is impossible that he be lost.”
Author: Hilary of Poitiers
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”The chief service I owe you, O God, is that every thought and word of mine should speak of you.”
Author: Hilary of Poitiers
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”The Church is the Ship outside which it is impossible to understand the Divine Word, for Jesus spoke from the boat to the people gathered on the shore.”
Author: Hilary of Poitiers
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Wages cannot be considered as a gift, because they are due to work, but God has given free grace to all men by the justification of faith.”
Author: Hilary of Poitiers
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”The utter folly of our time is lamentable, that men should think to assist God with human help and to protect the Church of Christ by worldly ambition.”
Author: Hilary of Poitiers
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”When we are overcome by some evil will, should we not tremble before the presence of the choirs of angels that surround us?”
Author: Hilary of Poitiers
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”However great a sinner may have been, if he shows himself devout to Mary he will never perish.”
Author: Hilary of Poitiers
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”For there have risen many who have given to the plain words of Holy Writ some arbitrary interpretation of their own, instead of its true and only sense, and this in defiance of the clear meaning of words. Heresy lies in the sense assigned, not in the word written; the guilt is that of the expositor, not of the text.”
Author: Hilary of Poitiers
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”In this we see the wondrous virtue of the Lord: that the power dwelling in His body should communicate to perishable things the efficacy to heal, and that the divine activity should issue forth even from the hem of His garment. For God is not perceptible by the senses, to be enclosed within a body. The assumption of a body did not limit the nature of His power; but for our redemption His power took upon it the frailty of our body.”
Author: Hilary of Poitiers
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Jews are a perverse people, accursed by God forever.”
Author: Hilary of Poitiers
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”[Judaism is] ever... mighty in wickedness... when it cursed Moses; when it hated God; when it vowed its sons to demons; when it killed the prophets, and finally when it betrayed to the Praetor and crucified our God Himself and Lord... And so glorying through all its existence in iniquity.”
Author: Hilary of Poitiers
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift. He will not deny us. God withholds what you are not yet ready for. He wants you to have a lively desire for His greatest gifts. All of which is to say, pray always and do not lose heart.”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God.”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”The measure of love is to love without measuring.”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord! He will not draw back and let you fall! Put your worries aside and throw yourself on him; He will welcome you and heal you.”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”To be under pressure is inescapable. Pressure takes place through all the world; war, siege, the worries of state. We all know men who grumble under these pressures and complain. They are cowards. They lack splendour. But there is another sort of man who is under the same pressure but does not complain, for it is the friction which polishes him. It is the pressure which refines and makes him noble”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”If you should ask me what are the ways of God, I would tell you that the first is humility, the second is humility, and the third is humility. Not that there are no other precepts to give, but if humility does not preceed all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Love and say it with your life.”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”In all trouble you should seek God. You should not set Him over against your troubles, but within them. God can only relieve your troubles if you in your anxiety cling to Him. Trouble should not really be thought of as this thing or that in particular, for our whole life on earth involves trouble; and through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself.”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”There is no love without hope, no hope without love, and neither hope nor love without faith.”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Therefore once for all this short command is given to you. 'Love and do what you will.' If you keep silent, keep silent by love; if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love: let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow.”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”Put no faith in salvation through the political order.”
Author: Augustine of Hippo
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Posted on: 2023-01-28
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”You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-29
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”We worship unity in trinity, and trinity in unity; neither confounding the person nor dividing the substance. There is one person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost; but the Godhead of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one; the glory equal, the majesty co-eternal.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-29
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”The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-29
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”Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-29
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”Prayer cleanses from sin, drives away temptations, stamps out persecutions, comforts the fainthearted, gives new strength to the courageous, brings travellers safely home, calms the waves, confounds robbers, feeds the poor, overrules the rich, lifts up the fallen, supports those who are falling, sustains those who stand firm.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-29
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”Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-29
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”The first reaction to truth is hatred.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-29
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”The Lord challenges us to suffer persecutions and to confess Him. He wants thiose who belong to him to be brave and fearless. He himself shows how weakness of the flesh is overcome by courage of the Spirit....A christian is fearless.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-29
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”In our case, murder being once for all forbidden, we may not destroy even the foetus in the womb, while as yet the human being derives blood from other parts of the body for its sustenance. To hinder a birth is merely a speedier mankilling; nor does it matter whether you take away a life that is born, or destroy one that is coming to the birth. That is a man which is going to be one; you have the fruit already in the seed.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-29
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”Hope is patience with the lamp lit.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-29
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”Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-29
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”In pain shall you bring forth children, woman, and you shall turn to your husband and he shall rule over you. And do you not know that you are Eve? God's sentence hangs still over all your sex and His punishment weighs down upon you. You are the devil's gateway; you are she who first violated the forbidden tree and broke the law of God. It was you who coaxed your way around him whom the devil had not the force to attack. With what ease you shattered that image of God: Man! Because of the death you merited, even the Son of God had to die... Woman, you are the gate to hell.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-29
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”God the Father's a deep root; the Son's the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-29
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”A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-29
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”It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-29
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”The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-29
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”The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain”
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Posted on: 2023-01-29
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”If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions.”
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Posted on: 2023-01-29
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”Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.”
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Posted on: 2023-01-29
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”For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.”
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Posted on: 2023-01-29
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”The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.”
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Posted on: 2023-01-29
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”Custom without truth is error grown old.”
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Posted on: 2023-01-29
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”Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God”
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Posted on: 2023-01-29
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”The whole fruit is already present in the seed.”
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”He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.”
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Posted on: 2023-01-29
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”Patience is God's nature.”
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Posted on: 2023-01-29
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”Where our work is, there let our joy be.”
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Posted on: 2023-01-29
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”The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.”
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Posted on: 2023-01-29
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”I believe because it is absurd.”
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Posted on: 2023-01-29
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”You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.”
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Posted on: 2023-01-29
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”It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.”
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Posted on: 2023-01-29
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”Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.”
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Posted on: 2023-01-29
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”Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-29
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”For those women sin against God when they rub their skin with ointments, stain their cheeks with rouge, and make their eyes prominent with antimony. To them, I suppose, the artistic skill of God is displeasing!”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-29
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”You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.”
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Posted on: 2023-01-29
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”Every soul, then, by reason of its birth, has its nature in Adam until it is born again in Christ; moreover, it is unclean all the while that it remains without this regeneration; and because unclean, it is actively sinful, and suffuses even the flesh (by reason of their conjunction) with its own shame.”
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Woman, thou shouldst ever be clothed in rags and in mourning, appearing only as a penitent, drowned in tears, and expiating thus the sin of having caused the fall of the human race. Woman thou art the gate of the devil. It is thou who hast corrupted those whom Satan dare not attack face to face.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Do you not know that you are Eve? The judgment of God upon this sex lives on in this age; therefore, necessarily the guilt should live on also. You are the gateway of the devil; you are the one who unseals the curse of that tree, and you are the first one to turn your back on the divine law; you are the one who persuaded him whom the devil was not capable of corrupting; you easily destroyed the image of God, Adam. Because of what you deserve, that is, death, even the Son of God had to die.”
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Woman is a temple built over a sewer.”
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity, insert into their ears the word of God, tie the yoke of Christ around their necks, and adorn their whole persons with the silk of sanctity and the damask of devotion.”
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”It is not permitted for a woman to speak in the church, nor is it permitted for her to teach, nor to baptize, nor to offer [the eucharist], nor to claim for herself a share in any masculine function- not to mention any priestly office.”
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions. One man's religion neither harms nor helps another man. It is assuredly no part of religion to compel religion, to which free will and not force should lead us.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Illustrious confessors of Jesus Christ, a Christian finds in prison the same joys as the prophets tasted in the desert. Call it not a dungeon, but a solitude. When the soul is in heaven, the body feels not the weight of fetters; it carries the whole man along with it.”
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”I believe BECAUSE it's impossible.”
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.”
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.”
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God”
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.”
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.”
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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”The Lord's Prayer "is truly the summary of the whole gospel." "Since the Lord...after handling over the practice of prayer, said elsewhere, 'Ask and you will receive,' and since everyone has petitions which are peculiar to his circumstances, the regular and appropriate prayer (the Lord's Prayer) is said first, as the foundation of further desires.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Christians are made, not born.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”There are still preserved among Christians traces of that Holy Spirit that appeared in the form of a dove. They expel evil spirits, perform many cures, and foresee certain events.”
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Thus the connection of the Father in the Son, and of the Son in the Paraclete, produces three coherent Persons, who are yet distinct One from Another. These three are one [thing], not one [Person], as it is said, 'I and my Father are One,' in respect of unity of substance not singularity of number.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”See how these Christians love one another.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The Word, then, the Christ, is the cause both of our ancient beginning, for lie was in God, and of our well-being. And now this same Word has appeared as man. He alone is both God and man, and the source of all our good things”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The fact is certain because it is impossible.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The angels as the guardians of men are set over men as instructors and monitors. This shows the relationship that is to exist between them. Man's attitude is to be one of obedience and subjection. He is to follow the lead of the angels, and consequently some reverence is already implied in the very relationship that exists between man and angel.”
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.”
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Where our joy is, there should our work be.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”But now inquiry is being made concerning these issues. First, can any believer enlist in the military? Second, can any soldier, even those of the rank and file or lesser grades who neither engage in pagan sacrifices nor capital punishment, be admitted into the church? No on both counts.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Discipline is an index to doctrine.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Whatever is born is the work of God. So whatever is plastered on, is the devil's work.... How unworthy of the Christian name it is to wear a fictitious face - you on whom simplicity in every form is enjoined! You, to whom lying with the tongue is not lawful, are lying in appearance.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Fear is the foundation of safety.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”We ourselves, though we're guilty of every sin, are not just a work of God: we're image. Yet we have cut ourselves off from our Creator in both soul and body. Did we get eyes to serve lust, the tongue to speak evil, ears to hear evil, a throat for gluttony, a stomach to be gluttony's ally, hands to do violence, genitals for unchaste excesses, feet for an erring life? Was the soul put in the body to think up traps, fraud, and injustice? I don't think so.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”[T]he Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost [are] three ... not in condition, but in degree; not in substance, but in form; not in power, but in aspect; yet of one substance, and of one condition, and of one power, inasmuch as He is one God, from whom these degrees and forms and aspects are reckoned, under the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Examine then, and see if He be not the dispenser of kingdoms, who is Lord at once of the world which is ruled, and of man himself who rules; if He have not ordained the changes of dynasties, with their appointed seasons, who was before all time, and made the world a body of times; if the rise and the fall of states are not the work of Him, under whose sovereignty the human race once existed without states at all.”
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God's plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, "We worship God through Christ!" Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself to be known and worshipped.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”I owe no duty to the forum, the election ground or the senate; I am ... no barking pleader, no judge, no soldier, no king; I have withdrawn from the populace. My only business is with myself. I have no care save not to care. The better life you would more enjoy in seclusion than in publicity. But you will decry me as indolent. ... None is born for another, being destined to die for himself.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God - the Teacher of the teacher.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”To forbid birth is only quicker murder.”
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”He who flees will fight again.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Enoch predicted that "the demons and the spirits of the angelic apostates would turn into idolatry all the elements, all the adornment of the universe, and all things contained in the heaven, the sea, and the earth, that they might be consecrated as God in opposition to God." All things, therefore, does human error worship, except the Founder of all himself. The images of those things are idols; the consecration of the images is idolatry.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”[Hermogenes] despises God's law in his painting, maintains repeated marriages [almost certainly a reference to remarrying after divorce or perhaps even widowhood, which Tertullian, who became a Montanist, opposed], alleges the law of God in defense of lust [likely same reference], and yet despises it in respect of his art.”
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.”
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”It is certain because it is impossible. -Certum est quia impossibile”
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The blood of the Christians is seed.”
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.”
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”All the Scriptures give clear proof of the Trinity, and it is from these that our principle is deduced...the distinction of the Trinity is quite clearly displayed.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”It is to believed because it is absurd.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Those who fled will fight another time.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”When we are going to enter the water ... in the presence of the congregation and under the hand of the president, we solemnly profess that we disown the devil, his pomp, and his angels. After this we are immersed three times, making a somewhat larger pledge than the Lord appointed in the Gospel. Then we are taken up [a reference to the Roman tradition of recognizing a newborn baby as a member of the family]. We first taste a mixture of milk and honey and from that day we refrain from the daily bath for a whole week.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”What is nobler than to tread under foot the gods of the nations, to exorcise evil spirits, to perform cures, to seek divine revelations, and to live to God? These are the pleasures - these are the spectacles - that befit Christian men.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Away with the one who is always seeking, for he never finds anything; for he is seeking where nothing can be found. Away with the one who is always knocking, for he knocks where there is no one to open; away with the one who is always asking, for he asks of one who does not hear.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”It is certain because it is possible.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”If we refuse our homage to statues and frigid images, the very counterpart of their dead originals, with which hawks, and mice, and spiders are so well acquainted, does it not merit praise instead of penalty [Christians were punished for not worshiping Roman gods] that we have rejected what we have come to see is error? We cannot surely be made out to injure those whom we are certain are nonentities. What does not exist is in its nonexistence secure from suffering.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: 'Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.'”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Out of the frying pan, into the fire.”
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry. Idolatry, in fact, is a sort of homage to the departed, the one as well as the other is a service to dead men. Moreover, demons dwell in the images of the dead. ... this sort of exhibition has passed from honors of the dead to honors of the living; I mean, to quaestorships [financial overseers]and magistractes, to priestly offices of different kinds. Yet, since idolatry still cleaves to the dignity's name, whatever is done in its name partakes of its impurity.”
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.”
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”I revere the fullness of His Scripture, in which He manifests to me both the Creator and creation. In the gospel moreover, I discover a Minister and Witness of the Creator, even His Word.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Let the emperor make war on heaven; let him lead heaven captive in his triumph; let him put guards on heaven; let him impose taxes on heaven! He cannot. . . . He gets his sceptre where he first got his humanity; his power where he got the breath of life.”
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”But all the other frenzies of passions-impious both toward the bodies and toward the sexes-beyond the laws of nature, we banish not only from the threshold, but from all shelter of the Church, because they are not sins, but monstrosities.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God's fair bride; and maiden's souls are such.”
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”He has inhibited discussion by designating admonition as the method of dealing with a heretic- and the first method, too, because he is not a Christian. This is so that he would not seem to require correction again and again and before two or three witnesses as though he were a Christian. He ought to be corrected for the very reason that he is not to be disputed with. In addition, this is said because a controversy over the Scriptures can, clearly, produce no other effect than help to upset either the stomach or the brain.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.”
Author: Tertullian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!”
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?”
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The blood of Christians is seed.”
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”There is strife between God s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.”
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.”
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”When we pray we speak to God;
but when we read, God speaks to us.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”It is our part to seek,
His to grant what we ask;
ours to make a beginning,
His to bring it to completion;
ours to offer what we can,
His to finish what we cannot.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Make knowledge of the Scripture your love ... Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one's faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one's life”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”We must love Christ and always seek Christ's embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Begin now what you will be hereafter.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, "Why do you not practice what you preach?”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”They please the world most, who please Christ least.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The Church was founded upon Peter: although elsewhere the same is attributed to all the Apostles, and they all receive the keys of the kingdom of heaven, the strength of the Church depends upon them all alike, yet one among the twelve is chosen so that when a head has been appointed, there may be no occasion for schism.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”If Christ did not want to dismiss the Jews without food in the desert for fear that they would collapse on the way, it was to teach us that it is dangerous to try to get to heaven without the Bread of Heaven.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The best advice that I can give you is this. Church-traditions — especially when they do not run counter to the faith — are to be observed in the form in which previous generations have handed them down; and the use of one church is not to be annulled because it is contrary to that of another.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Music to me is a voice, my voice, it's my way of expressing what colours can I bring in, what emotions, what feel. What ideas can I bring out from these instruments that would make this song come alive.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The friendship that can cease has never been real.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Whosoever you are who introduce new doctrines, I beseech you to spare the ears of Romans! Spare that faith which was commended by the voice of an Apostle. Why should you attempt to teach us, at the end of hundreds of years, that which we never heard before? Why bring forward what Peter and Paul did not will to make known? Until this day, the world was Christian without your doctrine. Thus, I hold as an old man onto that faith wherein I was regenerated as a boy.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being nobody has become a celebrity.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Honest speech does not seek secret places.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Love knows nothing of order.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”To ignore Scripture is to ignore Christ.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”To read without writing is to sleep.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”For it is good to cleave to God, and to put our hopes in the Lord, so that, when we have exchanged this poor life for the kingdom of heaven, we may cry aloud: 'Whom have I in heaven but thee? There is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.' Assuredly, when we have found such wealth in heaven, we may well grieve to have sought after poor passing pleasures here on earth.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace - the thousand pictures.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Woman is the root of all evil.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow's entrepreneurs.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The eating of meat was unknown up to the big flood, but since the flood they have put the strings and stinking juices of animal meat into our mouths, just as they threw in front of the grumbling sensual people in the desert. Jesus Christ, who appeared when the time had been fulfilled, has again joined the end with the beginning, so that it is no longer allowed for us to eat animal meat.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”To perceive is to categorize, to conceptualize is to categorize, to learn is to form categories, to make decisions is to categorize.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Others drink for sterility and commit murder on the human not yet sown. Some when they sense that they have conceived by sin, consider the poisons for abortion, and frequently die themselves along with it, and go to Hell guilty of three crimes: murdering themselves, committing adultery against Christ, and murder against their unborn child.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”If you call [the synagogue] a brothel, a den of vice, the devil's refuge, Satan's fortress, a place to deprave the soul, an abyss of every conceivable disaster or whatever else you will, you are still saying less than it deserves.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Virginity can be lost by a thought.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Time would fail me were I to try to lay before you in order all the passages in the Holy Scriptures which relate to the efficacy of baptism or to explain the mysterious doctrine of that second birth which though it is our second is yet our first in Christ.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”He is rich enough who does not want bread.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The scars of others should teach us caution.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Out of one hundred thousand sinners who continue in sin until death, scarcely one will be saved.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Haste is of the Devil.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Why do you not practise what you preach.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”They talk like angels but they live like men.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The tired ox treads with a firmer step.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Neither Britain, a land fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The truly miserable have a timbre in their voices strong enough to erase smiles from the faces and souls of the contented.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Playing keys is more than just knowing what notes to play. You have to know about the buttons too.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”To saints their very slumber is a prayer.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Keep always busy so that the devil will find you always engaged.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her maids.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Nothing is hard for lovers, no labor is difficult for those who wish it.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The Roman world is in collapse but we do not bend our neck.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”What cannot be changed cannot be blamed.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”An ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value without somesacrifice for it. Something given up, something not gained.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Do not marvel at the novelty of the thing, if a Virgin gives birth to God.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”It is not being in Jerusalem, but living a good life there that is praiseworthy.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Athletes as a rule are stronger than their backers; yet the weaker presses the stronger to put forth all his efforts.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Small minds cannot grasp great subjects.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”My speech is too fast; my oration confused; love knows no order.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”It is idle to play the lyre for an ass.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”It is hard for the human soul not to love something, and our mind must of necessity be drawn to some kind of affection.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The laws of Caesar are one thing, those of Christ, another. Papinianus judges one way, our Paul another.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Small minds can never handle great themes.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Quick enough, if good enough.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”That rain is the best which falls steadily on the earth. A sudden and excessive downpour ruins the fields.”
Author: Jerome
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”As two pieces of wax fused together make one so he who receives Holy Communion is so united with Christ that Christ is in him and he is in Christ.”
Author: Cyril of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Indeed the mystery of Christ runs the risk of being disbelieved precisely because it is so incredibly wonderful”
Author: Cyril of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”He who receives Communion is made holy and Divinized in soul and body in the same way that water, set over a fire, becomes boiling... Communion works like yeast that has been mixed into dough so that it leavens the whole mass; ...Just as by melting two candles together you get one piece of wax, so, I think, one who receives the Flesh and Blood of Jesus is fused together with Him by this Communion, and the soul finds that he is in Christ and Christ is in him”
Author: Cyril of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”It appertaineth to the true God alone to be able to loose men from their sins.”
Author: Cyril of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The devil tempts that he may ruin; God tests that he may crown.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Let your door stand open to receive Him, unlock your soul to Him, offer Him a welcome in your mind, and then you will see the riches of simplicity, the treasures of peace, the joy of grace. Throw wide the gate of your heart, stand before the sun of the everlasting light.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”No one heals himself by wounding another.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”When we speak about wisdom, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about virtue, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about justice, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about peace, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about truth and life and redemption, we are speaking about Christ.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Our own evil inclinations are far more dangerous than any external enemies.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”If someone offends you, don't tell anyone about it except your elder, and you will be peaceful. Bow to everyone, paying no attention whether they respond to your bow or not. You must humble yourself before everyone and consider yourself the worst of all. If we have not committed the sins that others have, perhaps this is because we did not have the opportunity - the situation and circumstances were different. In each person there is something good and something bad; we usually see only the vices in people and we see nothing that is good.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”As in paradise, God walks in the Holy Scriptures, seeking man.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Love is like a shadow, one can only catch it by falling into it.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”It is not enough just to wish well;
we must also do well.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”And let them remember that prayer should accompany the reading of Sacred Scripture, so that God and man may talk together; for "we speak to Him when we pray; we hear Him when we read the divine saying."”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”In some causes silence is dangerous.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The Lord was Baptized, not to be cleansed Himself, but to cleanse the waters, so that those waters, cleansed by the flesh of Christ which knew no sin, might have the power of Baptism.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The devil's snare does not catch you, unless you are first caught by the devil's bait.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”When we find ouselves in some grave danger we must not lose courage but firmly trust in God, for where there is the greatest danger, there is also the greatest help from Him who wants to be called our 'Help' in times of peace and in times of tribulation.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”If you have two shirts in your closet, one belongs to you and the other to the man with no shirt.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Remember, then, that you received a spiritual seal, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of knowledge and reverence, the spirit of holy fear. Keep safe what you received. God the Father sealed you, Christ the Lord strengthened you and sent the Spirit into your hearts as the pledge of what is to come.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”True repentance is to cease from sin.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”It is easier to look wise than to talk wisely.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Law is twofold -- natural and written. The natural law is in the heart, the written law on tables. All men are under the natural law.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”What is impossible to God? Not that which is difficult to His power, but that which is contrary to His nature.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Your soul must hold fast to Him, you must follow after Him in your thoughts, you must tread His ways by faith, not in outward show.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”He who reads much and understands much, receives his fill. He who is full, refreshes others.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”There is no time of life past learning something.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”To be content, to find true love, is what essentially drives us all, but if found, would it be recognized?”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The Church's foundation is unshakable and firm against the assaults of the raging sea. Waves lash at the Church but do not shatter it. Although the elements of this world constantly batter and crash against her, she offers the safest harbor of salvation for all in distress.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Except a man fear the Lord, he is unable to renounce sin.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”It is a better thing to save souls for the Lord than to save treasures. He who sent forth his apostles without gold had not need of gold to form his Church. The Church possesses gold, not to hoard, but to scatter abroad and come to the aid of the unfortunate.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”How far, O rich, do you extend your senseless avarice? Do you intend to be the sole inhabitants of the earth? Why do you drive out the fellow sharers of nature, and claim it all for yourselves? The earth was made for all, rich and poor, in common. Why do you rich claim it as your exclusive right?”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”When in Rome, live as the Romans do. When elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”If you do not give the tenth part to God, he will take the nine parts.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The world has been created for everyone's use, but you few rich are trying to keep it up for yourselves. For not merely the possession of the earth, but the very sky, the air, and the sea are claimed for the use of the rich few... The earth belongs to all, not just to the rich.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”As the print of the seal on the wax is the express image of the seal itself, so Christ is the express image - the perfect representation of God.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”We should pray to the angels, for they are given to us as guardians.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Redemption, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned. The doctrine of Redemption is the fundamental mystery of our holy religions, and whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Nature has poured forth all things for the common use of all men. And God has ordained that all things should be produced that there might be food in common for all, and that the earth should be in the common possession of all. Nature created common rights, but usurpation has transformed them into private rights.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”For how can we adopt those things which we do not find in the holy Scriptures?”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The wise man does nothing but what can be done openly and without falseness, nor does he do anything whereby he may involve himself in any wrong-doing, even where he may escape notice. For he is guilty in his own eyes before being so in the eyes of others; and the publicity of his crime does not bring him more shame than his own consciousness of it.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”It is not the ambassador, it is not the messenger, but the Lord Himself that saveth His people. The Lord remaineth alone, for no man can be partner with God in forgiving sins; this office belongs solely to Christ, who taketh away the sins of the world.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The rich women, to avoid dividing the inheritance among many, kill their own fetus in the womb and with murderous juices extinguish in the genital chamber their children.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The Psalms are the voices of the church.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Just as riches are an impediment to virtue in the wicked, so in the good they are an aid of virtue.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”It was not by dialectic that it pleased God to save His people.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”As a servant desireth the approval of his master, and a son the approval of his father, so should we desire the approval of God and our own conscience.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Stephen prayed for his persecutors, who had not been able even to listen to the Name of Christ, when he said of those very men by whom he was being stoned: "Lord, lay not this sin to their charge" And we see the result of this prayer in the case of the Apostle, for Paul, who kept the garments of those who were stoning Stephen, not long after became an apostle by the grace of God, having before been a persecutor.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body. You can at the same time be here and present to the Lord. Your soul must hold fast to him, you must follow after him in your thoughts, you must tread his ways by faith, not in outward show.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”If you are at Rome live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God. No one is excepted, not [even] the infant.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”It is Peter himself that He says, 'You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church.' Where Peter is, there is the Church. And where the Church, no death is there, but life eternal.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life of human kindness to one which was more akin to the rude existence of a wild beast.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Prelate, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of God.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The prime objective of all Initiatory music in the Temples of Antiquity was to bring about physical purification and renewal, mental stimulation and alertness, spiritual exhilaration and Illumination.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”But if these beings guard you, they do so because they have been summoned by your prayers.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The emperor is in the Church, not about the Church.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”When in Rome, do as the Romans do.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The body should be bedecked naturally and without affectation, with simplicity, with neglect rather than nicety, not with costly and dazzling apparel, but with ordinary clothes, so that nothing be lacking to honesty and necessity, yet nothing be added to increase its beauty.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”If every time the blood is poured out it is poured out for the remission of sins, I ought to receive it always, that my sins may always be forgiven me.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Neither angel, nor archangel, nor yet even the Lord Himself (who alone can say "I am with you"), can, when we have sinned, release us, unless we bring repentance with us.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”When I am at Rome I fast as the Romans do; when I am at Milan I do not fast. So likewise you, whatever church you come to, observe the custom of the place, if you would neither give offence to others, nor take offence from them.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Dice have their laws, which the courts of justice cannot undo.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”When you are at Rome, live as Romans live.”
Author: Ambrosius von Mailand
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”If God rewarded the righteous immediately, we would soon be engaged in business, not godliness...we would be pursuing not piety, but profit.”
Author: Clement Of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice to righteousness, from godlessness to God.”
Author: Clement Of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”It is not your outward appearance that you should beautify, but your soul, adorning it with good works.”
Author: Clement Of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.”
Author: Clement Of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”When lies have been accepted for some time, the truth always astounds with an air of novelty.”
Author: Clement Of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”All our life is like a day of celebration for us; we are convinced, in fact, that God is always everywhere. We work while singing, we sail while reciting hymns, we accomplish all other occupations of life while praying.”
Author: Clement Of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Every woman should be filled with shame by the thought that she is a woman.”
Author: Clement Of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The Lord ate from a common bowl, and asked the disciples to sit on the grass. He washed their feet, with a towel wrapped around His waist - He, who is the Lord of the universe!”
Author: Clement Of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”If you enroll as one of God's people, then heaven is your country and God your lawgiver.”
Author: Clement Of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”We must not cast away riches which can benefit our neighbor. Possessions were made to be possessed; goods are called goods because they do good, and they have been provided by God for the good of men: they are at hand and serve as the material, the instruments for a good use in the hand of him who knows how to use them.”
Author: Clement Of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The rule of life for a perfect person is to be in the image and likeness of God.”
Author: Clement Of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Explain the Scriptures by the Scriptures.”
Author: Clement Of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Prayer is happy company with God.”
Author: Clement Of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise.”
Author: Clement Of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”'Eat my flesh,' Jesus says, 'and drink my blood.' The Lord supplies us with these intimate nutrients, he delivers over his flesh and pours out his blood, and nothing is lacking for the growth of his children”
Author: Clement Of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”When you see your brother, you see God.”
Author: Clement Of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The Word of God became man, that thou mayest learn from man how man may become God.”
Author: Clement Of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”He who knows himself knows god.”
Author: Clement Of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Above all Christians are not allowed to correct by violence sinful wrongdoings.”
Author: Clement Of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Those who glory in their looks - not in their hearts - dress to please others.”
Author: Clement Of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Our whole life can go on in observation of the laws of nature, if we gain dominion over our desires from the beginning and if we do not kill, by various means of a perverse art, the human offspring, born according to the designs of divine providence; for these women who, in order to hide their immorality, use abortive drugs which expel the child completely dead, abort at the same time their own human feelings.”
Author: Clement Of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”GOD became man so that we in our turn may become God.”
Author: Clement Of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”There is one river of Truth which receives tributaries from every side.”
Author: Clement Of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”And Numenius, the Pythagorean philosopher, expressly writes: 'For what is Plato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek.'”
Author: Clement Of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”I think that one must approach the Logos Savior, not induced by the fear of punishment and not in the expectation of some kind of a reward, but primarily for the sake of the good in itself. Such will stand on the right in the sanctuary.”
Author: Clement Of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”If in this life there are so many ways for purification and repentance, how much more should there be after death! The purification of souls, when separated from the body, will be easier. We can set no limits to the agency of the Redeemer; to redeem, to rescue, to discipline, is his work, and so will he continue to operate after this life.”
Author: Clement Of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Just as God's will is creation and is called 'the world' so His intention is the salvation of men, and it is called 'the Church.'”
Author: Clement Of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”His Son Jesus, the Word of God, is our Instructor.... He is God and Creator.”
Author: Clement Of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The purified righteous man has become a coin of the Lord, and has the impress of his King stamped upon him.”
Author: Clement Of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”We are not to throw away those things which can benefit our neighbor. Goods are called good because they can be used for good: they are instruments for good, in the hands of those who use them properly.”
Author: Clement Of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”When the two shall be one, the outside as the inside, and the male and the female neither male nor female.”
Author: Clement Of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”We say that knowledge is not mere talk, but a certain divine knowledge, that light which is kindled in the soul as a result of obedience to the commandments, and which reveals all that is in a state of becoming, enables man to know himself and teaches him to become possessed of God.”
Author: Clement Of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”But by no manner of means are women to be allotted to uncover and exhibit any part of their person, lest both fall,-the men by being excited to look, they by drawing on themselves the eyes of the men.”
Author: Clement Of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Prayer that runs its course till the last day of life needs a strong and tranquil soul.”
Author: Clement Of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”He changed sunset into sunrise.”
Author: Clement Of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”It is far better to be happy than to have our bodies act as graveyards to animals.”
Author: Clement Of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”But those who are ready to toil in the most excellent pursuits, will not desist from the search after truth, till they get the demonstration from the Scriptures themselves.”
Author: Clement Of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”It is far better to be happy than to have your bodies act as graveyards for animals. Accordingly, the apostle [St.] Matthew partook of seeds, nuts and vegetables, without meat.”
Author: Clement Of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”If the Lord counts the natural beauty of the body inferior to that of the soul, what thinks He of spurious beauty, rejecting utterly as He does all falsehood?”
Author: Clement Of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”For the Divine Being cannot be declared as it exists: but as we who are fettered in the flesh were able to listen, so the prophets spake to us; the Lord savingly accommodating Himself to the weakness of men.”
Author: Clement Of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The law itself exhibits justice and teaches wisdom by abstinence from sensible images and by calling out to the Maker and Father of the universe.”
Author: Clement Of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”For, in truth, an image is only dead matter shaped by the craftsman's hand. But we have no sensible image of sensible matter, but an image that is perceived by the mind alone: God, who alone is truly God.”
Author: Clement Of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”It is absolutely impossible at the same time to be a man of understanding and not to be ashamed to gratify the body.”
Author: Clement Of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”He alone can remit sins who is appointed our Master by the Father of all; He only is able to discern obedience from disobedience.”
Author: Clement Of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”But it is with a different kind of spell that art deludes you ... it leads you to pay religious honor and worship to images and pictures.”
Author: Clement Of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Now the images and temples constructed by mechanics are made of inert matter, so that they too are inert, material, and profane. Even if you perfect the art, it partakes of mechanical coarseness. Works of art cannot then be sacred and divine.”
Author: Clement Of Alexandria
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Be constantly committed to prayer or to reading [Scripture]; by praying, you speak to God, in reading, God speaks to you.”
Author: Cyprian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”No one is strong in his own strength, but he is safe by the grace and mercy of God.”
Author: Cyprian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”There is one God and one Christ, and one Church, and one chair founded on Peter by the word of the Lord. It is not possible to set up another altar or for there to be another priesthood besides that one altar and that one priesthood. Whoever has gathered elsewhere is scattering.”
Author: Cyprian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”May all Christians be found worthy of either the pure white crown of a holy life or the royal red crown of martyrdom.”
Author: Cyprian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Whatever a man prefers to God, that he makes a god to himself.”
Author: Cyprian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”If He prayed who was without sin, how much more it becometh a sinner to pray!”
Author: Cyprian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Think not that you are thus maintaining the Gospel of Christ when you separate yourselves from the flock of Christ.”
Author: Cyprian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Persevere in labors that lead to salvation. Always be busy in spiritual actions. In this way, no matter how often the enemy of our souls approaches, no matter how many times he may try to come near us, he'll find our hearts closed and armed against him.”
Author: Cyprian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”This supernatural bread and this consecrated chalice are for the health and salvation of mankind.”
Author: Cyprian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Let us, then, who in Baptism have both died and been buried in respect to the carnal sins of the old man, who have risen again with Christ in the heavenly regeneration, both think upon and do the things that are Christ's.”
Author: Cyprian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Before all things, the Teacher of Peace and the Master of Unity would not have prayer made singly and individually, as for one who prays only for himself. For we do not say, "My Father, who art in heaven"... Our prayer is public and common; and when we pray, we pray not for one, but for the whole people, because we the whole people are one.”
Author: Cyprian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”If a murder is committed privately it is considered a crime. But if it happens with the authority of the state, they call it courage.”
Author: Cyprian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Custom is often only the antiquity of error.”
Author: Cyprian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”In proportion to the size of the vessel of faith, brought by us to the Lord, is the measure we draw out of His overflowing grace.”
Author: Cyprian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The world is going mad in mutual extermination, and murder, considered as a crime when committed individually, becomes a virtue when it is committed by large numbers. It is the multiplication of the frenzy that assures impunity to the assassins.”
Author: Cyprian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”When we pray to God with entire assurance, it is Himself who has given us the spirit of prayer.”
Author: Cyprian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”He [Christ] protects their faith and gives strength to believers in proportion to the trust that each man who receives that strength is willing to place in him.”
Author: Cyprian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”For the helmsman is recognized in the tempest; in the warfare the soldier is proved.”
Author: Cyprian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The Lord withdraws when He is denied, and what is taken by the undeserving does not avail them unto salvation, since the saving grace is turned into ashes and holiness departs.”
Author: Cyprian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The beard must not be plucked. Ye shall not deface the figure of your beard.”
Author: Cyprian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion.”
Author: Cyprian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Custom, though never so ancient, without truth, is but an old error.”
Author: Cyprian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”It is a persistent evil to persecute a man who belongs to the grace of God. It is a calamity without remedy to hate the happy.”
Author: Cyprian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Since the baptismal rebirth takes place only with the one Bride of Christ, where could he be born who is not a son of the Church?”
Author: Cyprian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Whereas there can be but one Baptism, they think they can Baptize; they have abandoned the fountain of life, yet promise the life and grace of the waters of salvation. It is not cleansing which men find there, but soiling; their sins are not washed away, but only added to. That being "born again" does not bring forth sons to God but to the Devil. Born of a lie, they cannot inherit the things which Truth has promised; begotten by the faithless, they are deprived of the grace of faith.”
Author: Cyprian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The spouse of Christ cannot be defiled; she is uncorrupted and chaste.”
Author: Cyprian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The wretched bodies of the condemned shall simmer and blaze in those living fires.”
Author: Cyprian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Murder, considered a crime when people commit it singly, is transformed into a virtue when they do it en masse.”
Author: Cyprian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Our prayers and fastings are of less avail, unless they are aided by almsgiving.”
Author: Cyprian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Baptism pertains to the Church alone.”
Author: Cyprian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”None of us offers resistance when he is seized, or avenges himself for your unjust violence, although our people are numerous and plentiful...it is not lawful for us to hate, and so we please God more when we render no requital for injury...we repay your hatred with kindness.”
Author: Cyprian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Knowing that there is one Baptism, we who hold the head and root of the One Church know for certain that to him who is outside the Church nothing is lawful.”
Author: Cyprian of Carthage
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The glory of God is a human being fully alive; and to be alive consists in beholding God.”
Author: Irenaeus of Lyons
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Jesus Christ, in His infinite love, has become what we are, in order that He may make us entirely what He is.”
Author: Irenaeus of Lyons
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Error never shows itself in its naked reality, in order not to be discovered. On the contrary, it dresses elegantly, so that the unwary may be led to believe that it is more truthful than truth itself.”
Author: Irenaeus of Lyons
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Through a tree we were made debtors to God; so through a tree we have our debt canceled.”
Author: Irenaeus of Lyons
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”As long as any one has the means of doing good to his neighbours, and does not do so, he shall be reckoned a stranger to the love of the Lord.”
Author: Irenaeus of Lyons
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”No man can know God unless God has taught him; that is to say, that without God, God cannot be known.”
Author: Irenaeus of Lyons
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Because of his boundless love, Jesus became what we are that he might make us to be what he is.”
Author: Irenaeus of Lyons
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The business of the Christian is nothing else but to be ever preparing for death.”
Author: Irenaeus of Lyons
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The glory of God is the human person fully alive.”
Author: Irenaeus of Lyons
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”He who was the Son of God became the Son of man, that man ... might become the son of God.”
Author: Irenaeus of Lyons
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Since it is impossible, without God, to come to knowledge of God, he teaches men through his Word to know God.”
Author: Irenaeus of Lyons
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The initial step for us all to come to knowledge of God is contemplation of nature.”
Author: Irenaeus of Lyons
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Suppose there arise a dispute relative to some important question among us, should we not have recourse to the most ancient Churches with which the apostles held constant intercourse, and learn from them what is certain and clear in regard to the present question? For how should it be if the apostles themselves had not left us writings? Would it not be necessary, in that case, to follow the course of the tradition which they handed down to those to whom they did commit the Churches?”
Author: Irenaeus of Lyons
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”For where the church is, there is the Spirit of God, and where the Spirit of God, there is the church and all grace.”
Author: Irenaeus of Lyons
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”When we stand in the light it is not we who illumine the light and cause it to shine but we are illuminated and made shining by the light... God grants his blessings on those who serve him because they are serving him and on those who follow him because they are following him, but he receives no blessing from them because he is perfect and without need”
Author: Irenaeus of Lyons
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”One should not seek among others the truth that can be easily gotten from the Church. For in her, as in a rich treasury, the apostles have placed all that pertains to truth, so that everyone can drink this beverage of life. She is the door of life.”
Author: Irenaeus of Lyons
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The church has been planted as a paradise in this world.”
Author: Irenaeus of Lyons
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”We have learned from none others the plan of our salvation, than from those through whom the Gospel has come down to us, which they did at one time proclaim in public, and, at a later period, by the will of God, handed down to us in the Scriptures, to be the ground and pillar of our faith”
Author: Irenaeus of Lyons
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Error, indeed is never set forth in its naked deformity, lest, being thus exposed, it should at once be detected. But it is craftily decked out in an attractive dress, so as, by its outward form, to make it appear to the inexperienced more true than truth itself.”
Author: Irenaeus of Lyons
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The preaching of the Church truly continues without change and is everywhere the same. It has the testimony of the Prophets and Apostles and all their disciples.”
Author: Irenaeus of Lyons
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”God became man, that we might be gods.”
Author: Irenaeus of Lyons
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”But following the only true and stedfast Teacher, the Word of God, our Lord Jesus Christ, who did, through His transcendent love, become what we are, that He might bring us to be even what He is Himself.”
Author: Irenaeus of Lyons
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”But we do now receive a certain portion of His Spirit, tending towards perfection, and preparing us for incorruption, being little by little accustomed to receive and bear God.”
Author: Irenaeus of Lyons
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”It is not necessary to seek the truth among others which it is easy to obtain from the Church; since the apostles, like a rich man [depositing his money] in a bank, lodged in her hands most copiously all things pertaining to the truth.”
Author: Irenaeus of Lyons
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”The Virgin Mary, being obedient to his word, received from an angel the glad tidings that she would bear God.”
Author: Irenaeus of Lyons
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”And when we come to refute them, we shall show in its fitting place that this class of men [i.e., the gnostics] has been instigated by satan to a denial of that baptism which is regeneration to God, and thus to a denial of the whole faith [by denying all physical aspects of spirituality, including the incarnatian and bodily resurrection of Jesus].”
Author: Irenaeus of Lyons
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”A man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject; knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.”
Author: Irenaeus of Lyons
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Prior to Valentinus, those who follow Valentinus had no existence. Nor did those from Marcion exist before Marcion. Nor, in short, did any of those malignant-minded people, whom I have listed above, have any existence previous to the initiators and inventors of their perversity.”
Author: Irenaeus of Lyons
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”He who retains unchangeable in his heart the rule of the truth which he received by means of baptism will doubtless recognise the names, the expressions, and the parables taken from the Scriptures [by the gnostics], but will by no means acknowledge the blasphemous use which these men make of them.”
Author: Irenaeus of Lyons
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Posted on: 2023-01-31
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”Blessed the one who, exalted by love, has become a city founded upon a mountain, from which the enemy, when he saw it, withdrew in fear, trembling at its security in the Lord.”
Author: Ephrem The Syrian
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”Blessed the one who loves truth continually and has not lent his mouth as an instrument of impiety by lying, for he fears the commandment about idle speech.”
Author: Ephrem The Syrian
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”In the measure to which a man cuts off and humbles his own will, he proceeds toward success. But insofar as he stubbornly guards his own will, so much does he brings harm to himself.”
Author: Ephrem The Syrian
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”Blessed the one who has kept the mastery of his eyelids and has not deceived himself with either mind or sense with regard to the skin of the flesh that after a little while oozes putrefaction.”
Author: Ephrem The Syrian
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”They went down to Egypt and provided food when famine reigned; they came to the obstinate sea, and taught it wisdom with a rod; they went out into the hostile desert and adorned it with a pillar; they entered the furnace, fiercely heated, and sprinkled it with their dew; into the pit where they had been thrown an angel entered and taught its wild beasts to fast.”
Author: Ephrem The Syrian
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”Not only men, but also women, the weaker sex, in going by the narrow path of Christ have received for themselves the Kingdom of Heaven. For there is neither male nor female, but everyone receives his own reward according to his own labor.”
Author: Ephrem The Syrian
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe the naked and does not? The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the coat unused in your closet belongs to the one who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the one who has no shoes; the money which you hoard up belongs to the poor.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”It is not he who begins well who is perfect. It is he who ends well who is approved in God's sight.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”He who plants kindness gathers love.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”There is still time for endurance, time for patience, time for healing, time for change. Have you slipped? Rise up. Have you sinned? Cease. Do not stand among sinners, but leap aside.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”Every divine action begins from the Father, proceeds through the Son, and is completed in the Holy Spirit.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”The human being is an animal who has received the vocation to become God.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”Do not say, "this happened by chance, while this came to be of itself." In all that exists there is nothing disorderly, nothing indefinite, nothing without purpose, nothing by chance ... How many hairs are on your head? God will not forget one of them. Do you see how nothing, even the smallest thing, escapes the gaze of God?”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”O sinner, be not discouraged, but have recourse to Mary in all you necessities. Call her to your assistance, for such is the divine Will that she should help in every kind of necessity.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”The sun penetrates crystal and makes it more dazzling. In the same way, the sanctifying Spirit indwells in souls and makes them more radiant. They become like so many powerhouses beaming grace and love around them.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”Everyone looks for the good, therefore everyone looks for God.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”I have learned from Jesus Christ Himself what charity is, and how we ought to practise it; for He says: "By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye love one another." Never can I, therefore, please myself in the hope that I may obtain the name of a servant of Christ if I possess not a true and unfeigned charity within me.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”The bread you store up belongs to the hungry; the cloak that lies in your chest belongs to the naked; the gold you have hidden in the ground belongs to the poor.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”As the pilot of a vessel is tried in the storm; as the wrestler is tried in the ring, the soldier in the battle, and the hero in adversity: so is the Christian tried in temptation.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”They who sow courtesy reap friendship, and they who plant kindness gather love.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”If you see your neighbor in sin, don't look only at this, but also think about what he has done or does that is good, and infrequently trying this in general, while not partialy judging, you will find that he is better than you.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”If you begin to guard wealth it will not be yours. But if you begin to distribute it, you will not lose it.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”What is the mark of love for your neighbor? Not to seek what is for your own benefit, but what is for the benefit of the one loved, both in body and in soul.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”We need not only read Sacred Scripture, but learn it as well and grow up in it. Realize that nothing is written in Scripture unnecessarily. Not to read Sacred Scripture is a great evil.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”Resolve to treat the things in your possession as belonging to others.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”The hairsplitting difference between formed and unformed makes no difference to us. Whoever deliberately commits abortion is subject to the penalty for homicide.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”Lust hath these three companions: the first, blindness of understanding; the second, hardness of heart; the third, want of grace.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”Wherever you may go, the least plant may bring you clear remembrance of the Creator.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”If someone has repented once of a sin, and again does the same sin, this is a sign that he has not been cleansed of the causes of the sin, wherefrom, as from a root, the shoots spring forth again.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”While we try to amass wealth, make piles of money, get hold of the land as our real property, overtop one another in riches, we have palpably cast off justice, and lost the common good. I should like to know how any man can be just, who is deliberately aiming to get out of someone else what he wants for himself.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”As it is impossible to verbally describe the sweetness of honey to one who has never tasted honey, so the goodness of God cannot be clearly communicated by way of teaching if we ourselves are not able to penetrate into the goodness of the Lord by our own experience.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”We often find comfort in telling what is painful in actual experience.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”When you have become God's in the measure he desires, then he himself will bestow you upon others; unless, to your greater glory, he chooses to keep you all to himself.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”Through the Holy Spirit comes our restoration to paradise, our ascension into the kingdom of heaven, our return to the adoption of sons, our liberty to call God our Father, our being made partakers of the grace of Christ, our being called children of light, our sharing in eternal glory, and, in a word, our being brought into a state of all "fulness of blessing," both in this world and in the world to come, of all the good gifts that are in store for us, by promise hereof, through faith, beholding the reflection of their grace as though they were already present, we await the full enjoyment.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”In the very nature of every human being has been sown the seed of the ability to love. You and I ought to welcome this seed, cultivate it carefully, nourish it attentively and foster its growth by going to the school of God's commandments with help of His grace.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”We should not accept in silence the benefactions of God, but return thanks for them.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”Beside each believer stands an Angel as protector and shepherd, leading him to life.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”Who is the covetous man? One for whom plenty is not enough.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”The bread which you use is the bread of the hungry; the garment hanging in your wardrobe is the garment of him who is naked; the shoes you do not wear are the shoes of the one who is barefoot; the acts of charity that you do not perform are so many injustices that you commit.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”What is the mark of a Christian? That he be purified of all defilement of the flesh and of the spirit in the Blood of Christ, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God and the love of Christ, and that he have no blemish nor spot nor any such thing; that he be holy and blameless and so eat the Body of Christ and drink His Blood; for 'he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgement to himself.' What is the mark of those who eat the Bread and drink the Cup of Christ? That they keep in perpetual remembrance Him who died for us and rose again.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”When someone steals a person's clothes, we call him a thief. Should we not also give the same name to the one who could clothe the naked but does not?”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”I heard many discourses which were good for the soul, but I could not discover in the case of any one of the teachers that his life was worthy of his words.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”You have heaven adorned, earth beautified, the sea populated with its own creatures, the air filled with birds which scour it in every direction. Studious listener, think of all these creations which God has drawn out of nothing; . . . recognize everywhere the wisdom of God; never cease to wonder, and, through every creature, to glorify the Creator.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”Reprimand and rebuke should be accepted as healing remedies for vice and as conducive to good health. From this it is clear that those who pretend to be tolerant because they wish to flatter---those who thus fail to correct sinners---actually cause them to suffer supreme loss and plot the destruction of that life which is their true life.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”I cannot persuade myself that without love to others, and without, as far as rests with me, peaceableness toward all, I can be called a worthy servant of Jesus Christ.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”[Every disappointment or misfortune can become a blessing in disguise, for which we should be grateful. But only if the hidden blessing is anticipated, expected and searched for will it be found and recognised as such and the most made of it. For example...] Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a good man's fortune.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”He who confesses magic or sorcery shall do penance for the time of murder, and shall be treated in the same manner as he who convicts himself of this sin.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”Therefore, let God inspired Scripture decide between us; and on whichever side be found doctrines in harmony with the Word of God, in favor of that side will be cast the vote of truth”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”Our Savior was crucified for our sakes that by His death He might give us life and train and attract us all to endurance. To Him I press on, and to the Father and to the Holy Spirit. I strive to be found true, judging myself unworthy of this world's goods; and yet not I because of the world, but the world because of me. Think of all these things in your heart; follow them with zeal; fight, as you have been commanded, for the truth to the death: For Christ was made 'obedient' even 'to death'”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”If one had taken what is necessary to cover one's needs and had left the rest to those who are in need, no one would be rich, no one would be poor, no one would be in need.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”We should not think that we achieve success in preaching through our own devices, but we should rely entirely on God.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”Human life is but of brief duration. 'All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God shall stand forever' (Isa. 40:6, 8). Let us hold fast to the commandment that abides, and despise the unreality that passes away.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”We must always be on guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated from the Divine Nature; for that which is foreign by nature does not share in the same honors.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”Truly unexpected tidings make both ears tingle.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”You can see that a city is prosperous by the wealth of goods for sale in the market. Land too we call prosperous if it bears rich fruit. And so also the soul may be counted prosperous if it is full of good works of every kind.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”The Christian ought not to say anything behind his brother's back with the object of calumniating him, for this is slander, even if what is said is true. He ought to turn away from the brother who speaks evil against him?”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”Persecution has come upon us, right honorable brethren, and persecution in the severest form. Shepherds are persecuted that their flocks may be scattered. And the worst of all is that those who are being treated ill cannot accept their sufferings in proof of their testimony, nor can the people reverence the athletes as in the army of martyrs, because the name of Christians is applied to the persecutors. The one charge which is now sure to secure severe punishment is the careful keeping of the traditions of the Fathers.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”If, therefore, there is any grace in the water, it is not from the nature of water but from the Spirit's presence there.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”As God illumines all people equally with the light of the sun, so do those who desire to imitate God let shine an equal ray of love on all people. For wherever love disappears, hatred immediately appears in its place. And if God is love, then hatred is the devil. Therefore as one who has love has God within himself, so he who has hatred within himself nurtures the devil within himself.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”A woman who deliberately destroys a fetus is answerable for murder. And any fine distinction as to its being completely formed or unformed is not admissible amongst us.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”He who sows courtesy reaps friendship.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”Just as a very little fresh water is blown away by a storm of wind and dust, in like manner the good deeds, that we think we do in this life, are overwhelmed by the multitude of evils.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be the most venial of faults; rather, be quick to repair it by repentance, although many others may commit a large number of faults, slight and grievous, and remain unrepentant.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”It is right to submit to a higher authority whenever a command of God would be violated.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”If everyone would take only according to his needs and would leave the surplus to the needy, no one would be rich, no one poor, no one in misery.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”When a sunbeam falls on a transparent substance, the substance itself becomes brilliant, and radiates light from itself. So too Spirit bearing souls, illumined by Him, finally become spiritual themselves, and their grace is sent forth to others. From this comes knowledge of the future, understanding of mysteries, apprehension of hidden things, distribution of wonderful gifts, heavenly citizenship, a place in the choir of angels, endless joy in the presence of God, becoming like God, and, the highest of all desires, becoming God.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”Extirpate two thoughts within thyself: do not consider thyself worthy of anything great, and do not think that any other man is much lower than thou in worthiness. Learn humble mindedness beforehand, which the Lord commanded in word and showed forth in deed. Hence, do not expect obedience from others, but be ready for obedience thyself.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”O God, enlarge within us the sense of fellowship with all living things, even our brothers, the animals, to whom Thou gavest the earth as their home in common with us. We must remember with shame that in the past we have exercised the high dominion of man with ruthless cruelty so that the voice of the earth, which should have gone up to thee in song, has been a groan of pain. May we realize that they live, not for us alone, but for themselves and for Thee and that they love the sweetness of life.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”As we were baptized, so we profess our belief. As we profess our belief, so also we offer praise. As then baptism has been given us by the Savior, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, so, in accordance with our baptism, we make the confession of the creed, and our doxology in accordance with our creed.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”We should even go beyond doing what is required in order to avoid scandal.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary. Life does not generate death, nor is darkness the beginning of light, nor is disease the maker of health, but in the changes of conditions there are transitions from one condition to the contrary.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”The bread which you hold back belongs to the hungry; the coat, which you guard in your locked storage-chests, belongs to the naked; the footwear mouldering in your closet belongs to those without shoes. The silver that you keep hidden in a safe place belongs to the one in need. Thus, however many are those whom you could have provided for, so many are those whom you wrong.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”The steam of meat darkens the light of the spirit...One hardly can have virtue when one enjoys meat meals and feasts.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”All these stupendous objects are daily around us; but because they are constantly exposed to our view, they never affect our minds, so natural is it for us to admire new, rather than grand objects. Therefore the vast multitude of stars which diversify the beauty of this immense body does not call the people together; but when any change happens therein, the eyes of all are fixed upon the heavens.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”He who is guilty of unseemliness with males will be under discipline for the same time as adulterers.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”All of us who desire the kingdom of God are, by the Lord's decree, under an equal and rigorous necessity of seeking after the grace of Baptism.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”If men are in a state in which they find it hard to be weaned from their own ways and choose rather to serve the pleasures of the flesh than to serve the Lord, and refuse to accept the Gospel life, there is no common ground between me and them.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”She who has intentionally destroyed [the fetus] is subject to the penalty corresponding to a homicide. For us, there is no scrutinizing between the formed and unformed [fetus]; here truly justice is made not only for the unborn but also with reference to the person who is attentive only to himself/herself since so many women generally die for this very reason.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”What is there astonishing in the death of a mortal? But we are grieved at his dying before his time. Are we sure that this was not his time? We do not know how to pick and choose what is good for our souls, or how to fix the limits of the life of man.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”Science which is acquired unwillingly, soon disappears; that which is instilled into the mind in a pleasant and agreeable manner, is more lasting.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”We do not accost a physician as we do any mere nobody; nor a magistrate as we do a private individual. We try to get some advantage from the skill of the one and the position of the other. Walk in the sun, and your shadow will follow you, whether you will or not.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”Do not, as is usually the case, thrust the care of the common weal upon your neighbor; then, as each one in his own thoughts makes light of the matter, all find to their surprise that they have drawn upon themselves by their neglect a personal misfortune.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of necessity will be our dreams.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic, though he cannot tell us where he went to school, or how much time was spent in his education, and knows nothing about letters at all.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will discover the wisdom of the Creator, in that He gave it a neck longer than its feet for this reason, that it might, as if lowering a sort of fishing line, procure the food hidden in the deep water.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise, so also we would not require the medical art for relief if we were immune to disease, as was the case, by God's gift, at the time of Creation before the Fall.”
Author: Basil the Great
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Posted on: 2023-02-01
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”A heavenly light more brilliant than all others sheds its radiance everywhere, and he who was begotten before the morning star and all the stars of heaven, Christ, mighty and immortal, shines upon all creatures more brightly than the sun.”
Author: Hippolytus of Rome
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Fly to the Catholic Church! Adhere to the only faith which continues to exist from the beginning, that faith which was preached by Paul and is upheld by the Chair of Peter.”
Author: Hippolytus of Rome
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Baptize first the children; and if they can speak for themselves, let them do so. Otherwise, let their parents or other relatives speak for them.”
Author: Hippolytus of Rome
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Women who were reputed believers began to resort to drugs for producing sterility. They also girded themselves around, so as to expel what was being conceived. For they did not wish to have a child by either slave or by any common fellow - out of concern for their family and their excessive wealth. See what a great impiety the lawless one has advanced! He teaches adultery and murder at the same time!”
Author: Hippolytus of Rome
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”This world and the world to come are two enemies. We cannot therefore be friends to both; but we must decide which we will forsake and which we will enjoy.”
Author: Clement Of Rome
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Follow the saints, because those who follow them will become saints.”
Author: Clement Of Rome
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”We should let God be the One to praise us and not praise ourselves. For God detests those who commend themselves. Let others applaud our good deeds.”
Author: Clement Of Rome
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Charity unites us to God... There is nothing mean in charity, nothing arrogant. Charity knows no schism, does not rebel, does all things in concord. In charity all the elect of God have been made perfect.”
Author: Clement Of Rome
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Filthy talk makes us feel comfortable with filthy action. But the one who knows how to control the tongue is prepared to resist the attacks of lust”
Author: Clement Of Rome
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Who can describe the bond of God's love? Who is able to explain the majesty of its beauty? The height to which love leads is indescribable. ... In love the master received us, Jesus Christ our Lord, in accordance with God's will gave his blood for us, and his flesh for our flesh, and his life for our lives.”
Author: Clement Of Rome
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”How blessed and amazing are God's gifts, dear friends! Life with immortality, splendor with righteous, truth with confidence, faith with assurance, self-control with holiness! And all these things are within our comprehension.”
Author: Clement Of Rome
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”God hates those who praise themselves.”
Author: Clement Of Rome
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Let us teach the young in the school of the fear of the Lord.”
Author: Clement Of Rome
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”And we, too, being called by His will in Christ Jesus, are not justified by ourselves, nor by our own wisdom, or understanding, or godliness, or works which we have wrought in holiness of heart; but by that faith through which, from the beginning, Almighty God has justified all men; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.”
Author: Clement Of Rome
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”If any one say that he has seen a just man in want of bread, I answer that it was in some place where there was no other just man.”
Author: Clement Of Rome
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Because of its divine institution for the propagation of man, the seed is not to be vainly ejaculated, nor is it to be damaged, nor is it to be wasted.”
Author: Clement Of Rome
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”A companion is but another self; wherefore it is an argument that a man is wicked if he keep company with the wicked.”
Author: Clement Of Rome
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”He who is chaste in flesh should not be proud, for he should know that he owes the gift of continence to another.”
Author: Clement Of Rome
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”The real wants of nature are the measure of enjoyments, as the foot is the measure of the shoe. We can call only the want of what is necessary poverty.”
Author: Clement Of Rome
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Fasts and vigils, the study of Scripture, renouncing possessions and everything worldly are not in themselves perfection, as we have said; theyare its tools. For perfection is not to be found in them; it is acquired through them. It is useless, therefore, to boast of our fasting, vigils, poverty, and reading of Scripture when we have not achieved the love of God and our fellow men. Whoever has achieved love has God within himself and his intellect is always with God.”
Author: John Cassian
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”If you wish to attain to true knowledge of the Scriptures, hasten to acquire first an unshakeable humility of heart. That alone will lead you, not to the knowledge that puffs up, but to that which enlightens, by the perfecting of love.”
Author: John Cassian
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”It is a bigger miracle to be patient and refrain from anger than it is to control the demons which fly through the air.”
Author: John Cassian
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”The bond between friends cannot be broken by chance; no interval of time or space can destroy it. Not even death itself can part true friends.”
Author: John Cassian
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”True knowledge is found only among those genuinely worshiping God.”
Author: John Cassian
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”The Doctor of our souls has placed the remedy in the hidden regions of the soul.”
Author: John Cassian
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”No structure of virtue can possibly be raised in our soul unless, first, the foundations of true humility are laid in our heart.”
Author: John Cassian
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”If you want to correct your brother when he is doing wrong? you must keep yourself calm; otherwise you yourself may catch the sickness you are seeking to cure and you may find that the words of the Gospel now apply to you? 'Why do you look at the speck of dust in your brother's eye, and not notice the rafter in your own eye?'”
Author: John Cassian
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”It is impossible for the mind to remain undisturbed by thoughts, but anyone serious about the matter can certainly permit them entry or drive them away, and although their origin does not lie entirely under our control we can choose to approve of them and to adopt them.”
Author: John Cassian
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Humility, in its turn, can be achieved only through faith, fear of God, gentleness and the shedding of all possessions.”
Author: John Cassian
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”God is not only to be known in His blessed and incomprehensible being, for this is something which is reserved for His saints in the age to come. He is also known from the grandeur and beauty of His creatures, from His providence which governs the world day by day, from His righteousness and from wonders which He shows to His saints in each generation.”
Author: John Cassian
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”If the kingdom of God is within us and that is a kingdom of justice, of peace, and of joy then whoever remains with these virtues is certainly in the kingdom of God. By contrast, all who deal in unrighteousness, in discord, and in death-bearing gloom have taken their stand in the kingdom of the devil, in hell and in lifelessness. It is by these tokens that the kingdom of God or of the devil is recognized.”
Author: John Cassian
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”When we say 'hallowed be Your name' to God what we are really saying is 'Father, make us such as deserve knowledge and understanding of how holy You are, or at least let Your holiness shine forth in the spiritual lives we lead.' And this surely happens as men see our good works and glorify our Father in heaven.”
Author: John Cassian
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”We are often indifferent to our brethren who are distressed or upset, on the grounds that they are in this state through no fault of ours. The Doctor of souls, however, wishing to root out the soul's excuses from the heart, tells us to leave our gift and to be reconciled not only if we happen to be upset by our brother, but also if he is upset by us, whether justly or unjustly; only when we have healed the breach through our apology should we offer our gift.”
Author: John Cassian
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”A clear rule for self-control handed down by the Fathers is this: stop eating while still hungry and do not continue until you are satisfied.”
Author: John Cassian
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Actually, all gifts have been given for reasons of temporal use and need and they will surely pass away at the end of the present dispensation. Love, however, will never be cut off. It works in us and for us, and not simply in this life. For when the burden of physical need has been laid aside in the time to come it will endure, more effectively, more excellently, forever unfailing, clinging to God with more fire and zeal through all the length of incorruption.”
Author: John Cassian
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”It is by means of these that we attain perfect love, through the grace and compassion of our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom be glory through all the ages. Amen.”
Author: John Cassian
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”The thief who received the kingdom of heaven, though not as the reward of virtue, is a true witness to the fact that salvation is ours through the grace and mercy of God.”
Author: John Cassian
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Everything we do, our every objective, must be undertaken for the sake of... purity of heart... we must practice the reading of the Scripture, together with all the other virtuous activities... to hold our hearts free of the harm of every dangerous passion and in order to rise step by step to the high point of love.”
Author: John Cassian
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”All of our holy fathers knew this and all with one accord teach that perfection in holiness can be achieved only through humility.”
Author: John Cassian
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”No other virtue makes man more equal to the angels, than the imitation of their way of life.”
Author: John Cassian
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”[God] arranged that the boy Samuel should be chosen but instead of teaching him directly He had him turn once or twice to an old man. This youngster, to whom He had granted a direct encounter with Himself, had nevertheless to go for instruction to someone who had offended God, and all because that person was an old man. He decided that Samuel was most worthy of a high calling and yet He made him submit to the guidance of an old man so that once summoned to a divine ministry he might learn humility and might himself become for all the young a model of deference.”
Author: John Cassian
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”...just as the edifice of all the virtues strives upward toward perfect prayer so will all these virtues be neither sturdy nor enduring unless they are drawn firmly together by the crown of prayer. This endless, unstirring calm of prayer... can neither be achieved nor consummated without these virtues. And likewise virtues are the prerequisite foundation of prayer and cannot be effected without it.”
Author: John Cassian
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”...unless the grace of God comes to the help of our frailty, to protect and defend it, no man can withstand the insidious onslaughts of the enemy nor can he damp down or hold in check the fevers which burn in our flesh with nature's fire.”
Author: John Cassian
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”No just man suffices unto himself for the winning of justification. The divine mercy must always hold out a hand to his footsteps as they falter and almost stumble, and this is so because the weakness of his free will may cause him to lose balance, and if he falls he may perish forever.”
Author: John Cassian
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”God can be sensed when we gaze with trembling hearts at that power of his which controls, guides, and rules everything, when we contemplate his immense knowledge and his knowing look which the secrets of the heart cannot evade.”
Author: John Cassian
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”The apostles were very sure that everything of theirs which had to do with salvation was a gift to them from God. 'Increase our faith'. They did not presume that the fullness of faith would come to them merely because they freely opted for it. They believed, rather, that it was a gift of God which would have to be granted to them.”
Author: John Cassian
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Wherefore a monk's whole attention should thus be fixed on one point, and the rise and circle of all his thoughts be vigorously restricted to it; viz., to the recollection of God, as when a man, who is anxious to raise on high a vault of a round arch, must constantly draw a line round from its exact centre, and in accordance with the sure standard it gives discover by the laws of building all the evenness and roundness required.”
Author: John Cassian
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”...we know that God arranges the opportunities for salvation in different ways. Our situation is that we respond eagerly or in a laggardly manner to these opportunities made available by God to us. God made the call come out of your homeland; Abraham by coming out was exercising obedience. There was the instruction come into the land; it was done, and that was the work of obedience. But the addition which I shall show you has to do with the grace of God, who gave a command - and a promise.”
Author: John Cassian
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”...works of piety and charity... are necessary in this present life for as long as inequality prevails. Their workings here would not be required were it not for the superabundant numbers of the poor, the needy, and the sick... As long as this inequity rages in the world, these good works will be necessary and valuable to anyone practicing them and they shall yield the reward of an everlasting inheritance to the man of good heart and concerned will.”
Author: John Cassian
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”...we must first scrutinize thoroughly anything appearing in our hearts or any saying suggested to us. Has it come purified from the divine and heavenly fire of the Holy Spirit? Or does it lean toward Jewish superstition? Is its surface piety something which has come down from bloated worldly philosophy? We must examine this most carefully, doing as the apostle bids us: 'Do not believe in every spirit, but make sure to find out if spirits are from God'.”
Author: John Cassian
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”If you cannot find Christ in the beggar at the church door, you will not find Him in the chalice.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”If you cannot find Christ in the beggar at the church door, you will not find Him in the chalice.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”There is nothing colder than a Christian who does not seek to save others.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”The road to Hell is paved with the bones of priests and monks, and the skulls of bishops are the lamp posts that light the path.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Be ashamed when you sin, don't be ashamed when you repent [To repent means to have a change of heart and mind. It is not simply a feeling of sorrow ,but a psycho/spiritual growth away from evil/death and a turning to God/life]. Sin is the wound, repentance is the medicine. Sin is followed by shame; repentance is followed by boldness [ Boldness means to beg God for undeserved mercy]. Satan has overturned this order and given boldness to sin and shame to repentance.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Not to share our own wealth with the poor is theft from the poor and deprivation of their means of life; we do not possess our own wealth, but theirs.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”We must not mind insulting men, if by respecting them we offend God.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”When you are weary of praying, and do not receive, consider how often you have heard a poor man calling, and have not listened to him.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”When you are before the altar where Christ reposes, you ought no longer to think that you are amongst men; but believe that there are troops of angels and archangels standing by you, and trembling with respect before the sovereign Master of Heaven and earth. Therefore, when you are in church, be there in silence, fear, and veneration.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”When we teach our children to be good, to be gentle, to be forgiving (all these are attributes of God), to be generous, to love their follow men, to regard this present age as nothing, we instill virtue in their souls, and reveal the image of God within them.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”To destroy the fetus 'is something worse than murder.' The one who does this 'does not take away life that has already been born, but prevents it from being born.'”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”The rich man is not one who is in possession of much, but one who gives much.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”It is impossible to be saved without the help of the Most Blessed Virgin, because those who are not saved by the justice of God are saved by the intercession of Mary.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”God loves us more than a father, mother, friend, or any else could love, and even more than we are able to love ourselves.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”No matter how just your words may be, when you speak with anger, you ruin all: no matter how boldly you speak, how fairly reprove, or what not.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Faithfulness in little things is a big thing.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Laughter has been implanted in our soul, that the soul may sometime be refreshed.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”The love of husband and wife is the force that welds society together.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Paul commands: 'Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the Traditions which you have been taught, whether by word or by our letter.' From this it is clear that they did not hand down everything by letter, but there is much also that was not written. Like that which was written, the unwritten too is worthy of belief. So let us regard the Tradition of the Church also as worthy of belief. Is it a Tradition? Seek no further.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”You cannot pray at home, like you can at church, where there is a great multitude; where exclamations are cried out to God as from one great heart, and where there is something more: the unions of minds, the accord of souls, the bond of charity, the prayers of priests.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Only those who do not fight are never wounded.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Only those who do not fight are never wounded.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Such is friendship, that through it we love places and seasons; for as bright bodies emit rays to a distance, and flowers drop their sweet leaves on the ground around them, so friends impart favor even to the places where they dwell. With friends even poverty is pleasant. Words cannot express the joy which a friend imparts; they only can know who have experienced. A friend is dearer than the light of heaven, for it would be better for us that the sun were exhausted than that we should be without friends.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”If you wish to leave much wealth to your children, leave them in God's care. Do not leave them riches, but virtue and skill. For if they learn to expect riches, they will not mind anything besides, and their abundant riches shall give them the means of screening the wickedness of their ways.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”God helps those who work, not those who are idle. No one helps an inactive person, but one who joins in the labor. The good God himself will bring...work to perfection.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”A comprehended god is no god.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Do you fast? Then feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, visit the sick, do not forget the imprisoned, have pity on the tortured, comfort those who grieve and who weep, be merciful, humble, kind, calm, patient, sympathetic, forgiving, reverent, truthful and pious, so that God might accept your fasting and might plentifully grant you the fruits of repentance.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Many can give money to those in need, but to personally serve the needy readily, out of love, and in a fraternal spirit, requires a truly great soul.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Since it is likely that, being men, they would sin every day, St. Paul consoles his hearers by saying 'renew yourselves' from day to day. This is what we do with houses: we keep constantly repairing them as they wear old. You should do the same thing to yourself. Have you sinned today? Have you made your soul old? Do not despair, do not despond, but renew your soul by repentance, and tears, and Confession, and by doing good things. And never cease doing this.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen from the grave.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”You can set up an altar to God in your minds by means of prayer. And so it is fitting to pray at your trade, on a journey, standing at a counter or sitting at your handicraft.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Whether or not our prayer is heard depends not on the number of our words, but on the fervor of our souls.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Mercy imitates God and disappoints Satan.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Prayer should be the means by which I, at all times, receive all that I need, and, for this reason, be my daily refuge, my daily consolation, my daily joy, my source of rich and inexhaustible joy in life.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”The Eucharist is a fire that inflames us, that, like lions breathing fire, we may retire from the altar being made terrible to the devil.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity. . .Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe to thyself but kind to others.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”A mother experiences more than one death, even though she herself will only die once. She fears for her husband; she fears for her children; again she fears for the women and children who belong to her children. ... For each of these-whether for loss of possessions, bodily illness, or undesired misfortune-she mourns and grieves no less than those who suffer.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”We are commanded to have only one enemy, the devil. With him never be reconciled! But with a brother, never be at enmity in thy heart.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Slander is worse than cannibalism.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Nothing will divide the church so much as the love of power.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Of all the afflictions that burden the human race, there is not one, whether spiritual or bodily, that cannot be healed by the Holy Scriptures.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Every man is the painter and the sculptor of his own life.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like?”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”For Christians above all men are forbidden to correct the stumblings of sinners by force...it is necessary to make a man better not by force but by persuasion. We neither have authority granted us by law to restrain sinners, nor, if it were, should we know how to use it, since God gives the crown to those who are kept from evil, not by force, but by choice.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”If we approach with faith, we too will see Jesus... for the Eucharistic table takes the place of the crib. Here the Body of the Lord is present, wrapped not in swaddling clothes but in the rays of the Holy Spirit.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Nothing causes us to so nearly resemble God as the forgiveness of injuries.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”A friend is more to be longed for than the light; I speak of a genuine one. And wonder not: for it were better for us that the sun should be extinguished, than that we should be deprived of friends; better to live in darkness, than to be without friends”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”This is the rule of most perfect Christianity, its most exact definition, its highest point, namely, the seeking of the common good ... for nothing can so make a person an imitator of Christ as caring for neighbors.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of fire; it hath bridled the rage of lions, hushed anarchy to rest, extinguished wars, appeased the elements, expelled demons, burst the chains of death, expanded the gates of heaven, assuaged diseases, repelled frauds, rescued cities from destruction, stayed the sun in its course, and arrested the progress of the thunderbolt.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”We pray not to inform God or instruct Him but to beseech Him closely, to be made intimate with Him, by continuance in supplication; to be humbled; to be reminded of our sins.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”What is dying? Just what it is to put off a garment. For the body is about the soul as a garment; and after laying this aside for a short time by means of death, we shall resume it again with more splendor.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”No one has ever been accused for not providing ornaments, but for those who neglect their neighbour a hell awaits with an inextinguishable fire and torment in the company of the demons. Do not, therefore, adorn the church and ignore your afflicted brother, for he is the most precious temple of all.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”God asks little, but He gives much.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”The desire to rule is the mother of heresies.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Wine was given us by God, not that we might be drunken, but that we might be sober. It is the best medicine when it has the best moderation to direct it. Wine was given to restore the body's weakness, not to overturn the soul's strength.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”The test of sincerity of one's prayer is the willingness to labor on its behalf.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Therefore, not only are their passions satanic, but their lives are diabolic. So I say to you that these are even worse than murderers, and that it would be better to die than to live in such dishonor. A murderer only separates the soul from the body, whereas these destroy the soul inside the body..... There is nothing, absolutely nothing more mad or damaging than this perversity.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Prayer is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”What greater work is there than training the mind and forming the habits of the young?”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”If the Lord should give you power to raise the dead, He would give much less than He does when he bestows suffering. By miracles you would make yourself debtor to Him, while by suffering He may become debtor to you. And even if sufferings had no other reward than being able to bear something for that God who loves you, is not this a great reward and a sufficient remuneration? Whoever loves, understands what I say.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Words cannot express the joy which a friend imparts.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”You can call happy those who saw Him... But, come to the altar and you will see Him, you will touch Him, you will give to Him holy kisses, you will wash Him with your tears, you will carry Him within you like Mary Most Holy.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Prayer is an all-efficient panoply, a treasure undiminished, a mine which is never exhausted, a sky unobscured by clouds, a heaven unruffled by the storm. It is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Every family should have a room where Christ is welcome in the person of the hungry and thirsty stranger.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Woman is a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination, and a painted ill.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”A man's readiness and commitment are not enough if he does not enjoy help from above as well; equally help from above is no benefit to us unless there is also commitment and readiness on our part.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”When we once begin to form good resolutions, God gives us every opportunity of carrying them out.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Imagine your anger to be a kind of wild beast, because it has ferocious teeth and claws, and if you don't tame it, it will devastate all things even corrupting the soul.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Fasting of the body is food for the soul.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”What the soul is in the body, let Christians be in the world.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Let the mouth also fast from disgraceful speeches and railings. For what does it profit if we abstain from fish and fowl and yet bite and devour our brothers and sisters? The evil speaker eats the flesh of his brother and bites the body of his neighbor.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”What is it to be a fool for Christ? It is to control one's thoughts when they stray out of line. It is to make the mind empty and free.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”It is simply impossible to lead, without the aid of prayer, a virtuous life.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Endurance is the queen of all virtues.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”How many there are who still say, 'I want to see His shape, His image, His clothing, His sandals.' Behold, you do see Him, you touch Him, you eat Him! You want to see His clothing. He gives Himself to you, not just to be seen but to be touched, to be eaten, to be received within .... Let all of you be ardent, fervent, enthusiastic. If the Jews stood, shoes on, staff in hand, and eating in haste, how much more vigilant should you be. They were about to go to Palestine; ... you are about to go to heaven.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”You see how many are the benefits of baptism, and some think its heavenly grace consists only in the remission of sins, but we have enumerated ten honors [it bestows]! For this reason we baptize even infants, though they are not defiled by [personal] sins, so that there may be given to them holiness, righteousness, adoption, inheritance, brotherhood with Christ, and that they may be his [Christ's] members”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”In the Christian combat, not the striker, as in the Olympic contests, but he who is struck, wins the crown. This is the law in the celestial theatre, where the Angels are the spectators.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Nothing is more powerful than meekness. For as fire is extinguished by water, so a mind inflated by anger is subdued by meekness. By meekness we practice and make known our virtue, and also cause the indignation of our brother to cease, and deliver his mind from perturbation.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Memory of our good works makes us negligent and leads to arrogance. Do not think of your good deeds, so that God may remember them.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”The pains of hell are not the greatest part of hell; the loss of heaven is the weightiest woe of hell.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”This is the highest point of philosophy, to be simple & wise; this is the angelic life.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”It is possible to offer fervent prayer even while walking in public or strolling alone or seated in your shop ... while buying or selling ... or even while cooking.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Dost thou wish to receive mercy? Show mercy to thy neighbor.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Even if we have thousands of acts of great virtue to our credit, our confidence in being heard must be based on God's mercy and His love for men. Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”What good is it if the Eucharistic table is overloaded with golden chalices when your brother is dying of hunger. Start by satisfying his hunger and then with what is left you may adorn the altar as well.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”The primary goal in the education of children is to teach, and to give the example of, a virtuous life.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Charity is indeed, a great thing, and a gift of God, and when it is rightly ordered likens us unto God himself, as far as that is possible; for it is charity which makes the man.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Be ashamed when you sin, not when you repent.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”When the Mass is being celebrated, the sanctuary is filled with countless angels, who adore the Divine Victim immolated on the altar.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Whether, therefore, we receive what we ask for, or do not receive it, let us still continue steadfast in prayer. For to fail in obtaining the desires of our heart, when God so wills it, is not worse than to receive it; for we know not as He does, what is profitable to us.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Sin makes man a coward; but a life in the Truth of Christ makes Him bold.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”How many of you say: I should like to see His face, His garments, His shoes. You do see Him, you touch Him, you eat Him. He gives Himself to you, not only that you may see Him, but also to be your food and nourishment.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Just as those who are deprived of light cannot walk straight, so also those who do not behold the ray of the Holy Scriptures must necessarily sin, since they walk in the deepest darkness.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Consider how august a privilege it is, when angels are present, and archangels throng around, when cherubim and seraphim encircle with their blaze the throne, that a mortal may approach with unrestrained confidence, and converse with heaven's dread Sovereign! O, what honor was ever conferred like this?”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Surely we ought to show them (animals) great kindness and gentleness for many reasons, but, above all, because they are of the same origin as ourselves.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”For if you change from inhumanity to alms giving, you have stretched fourth the hand that was withered. If you withdraw from theaters and go to church, you have cured the lame foot. If you draw back your eyes from a harlot ... you have opened them when they were blind ... These are the greatest miracles.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”It is not the man who is responsible for the offerings as they become Christ's Body and Blood; it is Christ Himself who was crucified for us. The standing figure belongs to the priest who speaks these words. The power and the grace belong to God. 'This is My Body,' he says. And these words transform the offerings.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”If you say, "Would there were no wine" because of the drunkards, then you must say, going on by degrees, "Would there were no steel," because of the murderers, "Would there were no night," because of the thieves, "Would there were no light," because of the informers, and "Would there were no women," because of adultery.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”I hear no one boast, that he hath a knowledge of the Scriptures, but that he owneth a Bible written in golden characters. And tell me then, what profiteth this? The Holy Scriptures were not given to us that we should enclose them in books, but that we should engrave them upon our hearts.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”You carry your snare everywhere and spread your nets in all places. You allege that you never invited others to sin. You did not indeed, by your words, but you have done so by your dress and your deportment.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Good men do not always have grace and favor, lest they should be puffed up, and grow insolent and proud.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Mary was made Mother of God to obtain salvation for many who, on account of their wicked lives, could not be saved according to the rigor of Divine justice, but might be saved with the help of her sweet mercy and powerful intercession.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Why do you beat the air and run in vain? Every occupation has a purpose, obviously. Tell me then, what is the purpose of all the activity of the world? Answer, I challenge you! It is vanity of vanity: all is vanity.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”If repentance is neglected for an instant, one can lose the power of the Resurrection as he lives with the weakness of tepidity and the potential of his fall.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”What shall I say! And how shall I describe this Birth to you? For this wonder fills me with astonishment. The Ancient of Days has become an infant. He Who sits upon the sublime and heavenly Throne, now lies in a manger. And He Who cannot be touched, Who is simple, without complexity, and incorporeal, now lies subject to the hands of men. He Who has broken the bonds of sinners, is now bound by an infant's bands. But He has decreed that ignominy shall become honor, infamy be clothed with glory, and total humiliation the measure of His Goodness.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”The drunken man is a living corpse.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Words would be superfluous if we had deeds to show for Them.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Whatever you may do for your brother, being hungry, and a stranger, and naked, not even the devil will be able to despoil, but it will be laid up in an inviolabe treasure.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”We ought not, as soon as we leave church, to plunge into business unsuited to church, but as soon as we get home, we should take the Scriptures into our hands, and call our wife and children to join us in putting together what we have heard in church.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”To love Christ -means not to be a hireling, not to look upon a noble life as an enterprise or trade, but to be a true benefactor and to do everything only for the sake of love for God.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”You [Jews] did slay Christ, you did lift violent hands against the Master, you did spill his precious blood. This is why you have no chance for atonement, excuse, or defense.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Glory be to God for all things!”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”The Holy Scriptures lead us to God and open the path to the knowledge of God.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Do not the angels differs from us in this respect, that they do not want so many things as we do? Therefore the less we need, the more we are on our way to them; the more we need, the more we sink down to this perishable life.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Are you angry? Be angry at your sins, beat your soul, afflict your conscience, but strict in judgement and a terrible punisher of your own sins. This is the benefit of anger, wherefore God placed it in us.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Thus abide constantly with the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, so that the heart swallows the Lord and the Lord the heart, and the two become one.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Where dance is, there is the devil.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”I do not think there are many among Bishops that will be saved, but many more that perish.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Musicke doth withdraw our mindes from earthly cogitations, lifteth up our spirits into heaven, maketh them light and celestial.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”That is true plenty, not to have, but not to want riches.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Every trace of the old philosophy and literatureof the ancient world has vanished from the face of the earth.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”We should not bear it with bad grace if the answer to our prayer is long delayed. Rather, let us, because of this, show great patience and resignation. For He delays for this reason: that we may offer Him a fitting occasion of honoring us through His divine providence.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”One who strictly prosecutes the misdemeanors of others will find not condescension towards his own.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”An insult is either sustained or destroyed, not by the disposition of those who insult, but by the disposition of those who bear it.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Every time that we sin, we are born of the devil. But every time that we do good, we are born of God.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Things themselves do not remain, but their effects do. Therefore we should not be mean and calculating with what we have but give with a generous hand. Look at how much people give to players and dancers-why not give just as much to Christ?”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”What prayer could be more true before God the Father than that which the Son, who is Truth, uttered with His own lips?”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”From the creation learn to admire thy Lord! And if any of the things thou see exceed thy comprehension, and thou are not able to find the reason thereof, yet for this glorify the Creator, that the wisdom of these works surpass thine understanding.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Please listen to me - you are not paying attention. I am talking to you about the Holy Scriptures, and you are looking at the lamps and the people lighting them. It is very frivolous to be more interested in what the lamplighters are doing... After all, I am lighting a lamp too - the lamp of God's Word.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”He that enjoys naught without thanksgiving is as though he robbed God.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Do you think that the man-loving God has given you much so that you could use it only for your own benefit? No, but so that your abundance might supply the lack of others.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”For nothing so much disturbs the mind, though it be done for some beneficial purpose, as to innovate and introduce strange things, and most of all when this is done in matters relating to divine worship and the glory of God.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”God measures out affliction to our need.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”There is harm not only in trying to gain wealth but also in excessive concern with even the most necessary things. It is not enough to despise wealth, but you must also feed the poor and, more importantly, you must follow Christ.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Abba Moses asked Abba Sylvanus, Can a person lay a new foundation every day? The old man replied, If you work hard, you can lay a new foundation every moment. Abba Pimen said, To throw yourself before God, not to measure your progress, to leave behind all self-will; these are the instruments for the work of the soul. The desire to rule is the mother of heresies.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Yet, when we must put aside our wrath, quench our envy, soften our anger, offer our prayers, and show a disposition which is reasonable, mild, kindly, and loving, how could poverty stand in our way? For we accomplish these things not by spending money but by making the correct choice.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”A man does not possess all the gifts, lest he think that grace is nature.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Before they committed the crime of crimes, before they killed their Master, before the cross, before the slaying of Christ, [Jewish sacrifices were] an abomination.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”If we were not passionately inclined to money or to vainglory, then we would not fear death or poverty. We would not know enmity or hatred, and we would not suffer from the sorrows of ourselves or others.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground; for it is hard for a tree that stands by the wayside to keep her fruit till it be ripe.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”The Holy Scriptures do not know any distinctions. They enjoin that all lead the life of monks.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”O most grateful burden, which comforts them that carry it! The burdens of earthly masters gradually wear out the strength of those who carry them; but the burden of Christ assists the bearers of it, because we carry not grace, but grace us.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”What gnats are compared with humans, so is the whole creation compared with God.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Let us pass to the despotic part of the soul, spirit. We must not eliminate it utterly from the youth nor yet allow him to use it all the time. Let us train boys from earliest childhood to be patient when they suffer wrongs themselves, but, if they see another being wronged, to sally forth courageously and aid the sufferer in fitting measure.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”This is what an excellent teacher does; he does not follow his disciples' fancy everywhere, but leads them to his own mind, and pulls up the thorns, and then puts the seed in, and does not answer at once in all cases to the questions put to him.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”I do not know whether anyone has ever succeeded in not enjoying praise. And, if we enjoy it, we naturally wants to receive it. And if we want to receive it, we cannot help but being distraught at losing it. Those who are in love with applause have their spirits starved not only when they are blamed off-hand, but even when they fail to be constantly praised.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”If then we have Angels, let us be sober, as though we were in the presence of tutors; for there is a demon present also.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”God does not forsake you. It is because he wishes to increase your glory that oftentimes he permits you to fall sick. Keep up your courage so that you may also hear him say: Do you think I have dealt with you otherwise than that you may be shown to be just?”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Make account that thou hast done nothing, and then thou hast done all. For if, being sinners, when we account ourselves to be what we are, we become righteous, as indeed the Publican did; how much more, when being righteous we account ourselves to be sinners.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”It is certainly a greater and more wonderful work to change the minds of enemies, bringing about a change of soul, than to kill them.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Almsgiving above all else requires money, but even this shines with a brighter luster when the alms are given from our poverty. The widow who paid in the two mites was poorer than any human, but she outdid them all.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Labor: a powerful medicine.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”It brings comfort to have companions in whatever happens.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Him who is dead and gone honor with remembrance, not with tears.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Let us not overlook so great a gain.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Hell is paved with priests' skulls.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”I exhort and entreat you all, disregard what this man and that man thinks about these things, and inquire from the Scriptures all these things.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”There are many poor men and poor women: set apart some one constantly to remain there: let the poor man be though but as a guard to thy house: let him be to thee wall and fence, shield and spear. Where alms are, the devil dares not approach, nor any other evil thing.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”If you would rise, shun luxury, for luxury lowers and degrades.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Fasting is a medicine.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Intemperance is a hydra with a hundred heads. She never stalks abroad unaccompanied with impurity, anger, and the most infamous profligacies.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”In the matter of piety, poverty serves us better than wealth, and work better than idleness, especially since wealth becomes an obstacle even for those who do not devote themselves to it.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Laughter does not seem to be a sin, but it leads to sin.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”What shepherd feeds his sheep with his own blood? But Christ feeds us with His own Blood and in all things unites us to Himself.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Let us return from that Table like lions breathing out fire, terrifying to the devil!”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. To-day it is for thee; tomorrow it is against thee. It arms the eyes of the envious every where. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Feet were made, not given for dancing, but to walk modestly, not to leap impudently like camels.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”Shall I tell you of their plundering, their covetousness, their abandonment of the poor, their thefts, their cheating in trade?”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”The Jews were God's chosen people.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”The slave should be resigned to his lot, in obeying his master he is obeying God.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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”It may here be observed, that all who are offended by us are exposed to our view. But the rich man sees Lazarus not with any other righteous man, but in Abraham's bosom. For Abraham was full of love, but the man is convicted of cruelty. Abraham sitting before his door followed after those that passed by, and brought them into his house, the other turned away even them that abode within his gate.”
Author: John Chrysostom
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Posted on: 2023-02-02
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