“Glory to Him Who could never be measured by us! Our heart is too small for Him; yea our mind is too feeble. He makes foolish our littleness by the riches of His Wisdom.���
+ St. Ephraim the Syrian +
"God loved you, and so He brought you into being. God loved you, and so He created you in the best image; He created you in His image. He endowed you with understanding and wisdom, with spirit and immortality; beauty in all things"
+ Pope Shenouda +
"So long as your body is not yours but the Lord's, and since it is the temple of the Holy Spirit and you are merely the steward over it... keep it then holy unto God"
+ Pope Shenouda +
"The money you have is not for you, but you are a steward over it... to do with it as your God wants you to; do not say, 'I am free to do what I wish with my money' "
+ Pope Shenouda +
The difference btween the saint&the ordinary person is that th'saint took th'spiritual life seriously-by serious I don't mean grave or sombre or some1 who is not cheerful-No. Seriousness means that a person walks seriously;he doesn't falter btween 2ways,nor walks slackly in life
"The ordinary person is concerned with his own comfort even if it causes other people to suffer. But the person w/ values finds his true comfort when he toils for the sake of making others comfortable. To him, comfort means to give comfort to others, not to himself" -PopeShenouda
"Instead of promising God that you will change yourself for the better, take a promise from Him in your prayers, that He will change you to the better" (Pope Shenouda)