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soz but jus saints coz its gotsa b religious!!!
[glow=red,2,300]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.
spoken by St. John Chrysostom[/glow]
GBU everyone ;)
gnite ;)
GOD BLESS ALL! :-*
i especially like this quote caus i found it when translating a part from Augustine in Latin for school, and it was so, i dont know, true :)
thanx matt, for sharing that last one ;)
heres another ;)
[glow=red,2,300]Abba Isidore the Priest spake..."""If you desire salvation, do everything that leads you to it."""[/glow]
its my msn name at the moment ;)
and one by [glow=red,2,300]saint .Augustine,
God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble[/glow]
i know it off by heart too!!!
keep them comin ;)
Goodbye ;)...GBU ALL ;D
The primary goal in the education of children is to teach and give the example of a virtuous life.[/glow]
[move] [glow=red,2,300];) ;D G B U !! ;) ;D[/glow] [/move]
[glow=red,2,300]it belongs to Satan to sow thoughts, but it is our affair not to welcome them.
Abba Poeman[/glow]
[glow=red,2,300]A man who does good overcomes obstacles; he doesnt let obstacles defeat him, because he is a lover of good
H.H Pope Shenouda III[/glow]
[glow=red,2,300]Nothing equals the mercy of God or surpasses it. to despair is therefore to inflict death on oneself
St John Climacus[/glow]
[glow=red,2,300]Whomever escapes oppression escapes from God
St Paul the Hermit[/glow]
I have received this great fiery Spirit: receive Him now yourselves. If you wish to receive Him that He may dwell in you, first offer hard labours of the flesh and humility of the heart. Raise your thoughts up to heaven night and day. Ask in uprightness of heart for this fiery Spirit and He will then be given to you...Persist in prayer diligently, with all your heart, and He will be given you, for this Spirit dwells in upright hearts. He will reveal to you higher mysteries and other things which I cannot express in ink and paper... celestial joy will then be your portion day and night.[/glow]
just love this one ;D :'( cry from hapiness ;D :P
GBU ;)
keep em comin ;)
from saints ok....
the Bible isnt quotes...or is it?!
but like saints are the ones with the qoutes ;)
ok
EsHtA :P ;)
coz anyone/ everyone can just read the Bible instead...
this qoute is relevant to what i just said....coz u have to like the whole Bible, not just fav. bits :P
[glow=red,2,300]If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you do not like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
-- St. Augustine[/glow]
it was the first one i mentioned in this thread...
heres another madd one ;D
[glow=red,2,300]Julius Africanus, Epistle to Aristides, II spake...
For whereas in Israel the names of their generations were enumerated either according to nature or according to law, — according to nature, indeed, by the succession of legitimate offspring, and according to law whenever another raised up children to the name of a brother dying childless; for because no clear hope of resurrection was yet given them, they had a representation of the future promise in a kind of mortal resurrection, with the view of perpetuating the name of one deceased... [/glow]
GBU ;)
- St Gregory of Nazianzus
- Abba Nilus
Abba Poemen said, "The soul can be humbled by nothing except thou enfeeble it by the eating of [little] bread."[/glow]
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury,pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen [/glow]
St. Francis of Assisi
- Makarios the Great
St. Epiphanius
[glow=red,2,300]"If you forgive few things, He forgives you few! If you forgive many things, He forgives you many!" [/glow]
[glow=red,2,300]"How can you ask your Lord to be mild and merciful to you, when you have been so hard and unforgiving to your fellow-man."[/glow]
[glow=red,2,300]"Have you been wronged much and robbed and slandered and injured in matter of the first importance; and do you wish to see your enemy punished? Yet even for this, it will be of use to you to pardon him."[/glow]
We acknowledge the passion of the Lord in the flesh, the resurrection in the power of His divinity, the ascension to heaven, and His glorious appearing when He comes for the judgment of the living and the dead, and for the eternal life of the saints. [/glow]
most of these quotes of mine, that i posted are from www.coptichymns.net lol.......
GBU ;)
in the depths of God's love
and has tasted the sweet delight
of God's intellective graces,
it can no longer bear to stay frozen
in its own former condition
but is impelled to rise ever higher to the heavens.
The higher it ascends through the Spirit,
and the deeper it sinks into the abyss of God,
the more it is consumed by the fire of longing
and searches out the immensity
of the even deeper mysteries of God,
strenuously trying to come into that blessed light,
where every intellect is caught up into ecstasy,
where the heart knows it can finally rest
from all its strivings
and find its rest in joy".[/glow]
- Abba Niketas Stethatos
The greatest might of a man is to bring upon his soul his transgression at all times before God, and he must expect temptation until the end.
there gr8 minrew
thanks 4 sharing and caring
[glow=red,2,300]"If the Holy Spirit is peace of soul, as He is said to be and as He is in reality,
and if anger is disturbance of heart, as it actually is and as it is said to be,
then nothing so prevents His presence in us as anger." [/glow]
- St. John Climacus
[glow=red,2,300]Prayer:
To describe it with the boldest expression, prayer is a conversation with God.
Even if we speak with a low voice, even if we whisper without opening the lips, even if we call to Him only from the depths of our heart, our unspoken word always reaches God and God always hears.
Sometimes, however, besides speaking, we lift our head and lift our arms to heaven.
In this way, we are underlining the desire that the spirit has for the spiritual world. We are striving with the word to raise the body above the earth. We are giving wings to the soul for it to reach the good things on high. [/glow]
· St. Clement of Alexandria ·
Here are some more words of St. John Chrysostom:
[glow=red,2,300]"Has your neighbor wronged you and grieved you. ...Yield the matter to God, and He will dispose of it much better than you can desire."[/glow]
[glow=red,2,300]"To you He has given charge simply to pray for the one who has injured you; but how to deal with him, He has ordered you to leave for Himself."[/glow]
[glow=red,2,300]"If you pardon from the heart, and sincerely, God in like manner also pardons you."[/glow]
St. John Chrysostom iz tha man!
Here are some more of his spiritual words:
[glow=red,2,300]"Let us not procrastinate till tomorrow. For we 'know not what the next day may bring forth,' nor let us say, 'we shall conquer this habit little by little,' since this little and little will never come to an end."[/glow]
[glow=red,2,300]"If you pardon from the heart, and sincerely, God in like manner also pardons you."[/glow]
[glow=red,2,300]"For nothing so fills the mind with impurity, as anger remaining constantly within."[/glow]
[glow=red,2,300]"The spirit of meekness settles not where wrath or passion exists."[/glow]
- St. John Chrysostom
· St. Gregory of Nyssa ·
- St. John the Solitary