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− | + | "Be persecuted, rather than be a persecutor. Be crucified, rather than be a crucifier. Be treated unjustly, rather than treat anyone unjustly. Be oppressed, rather than zealous. Lay hold of goodness, rather than justice." | |
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− | + | "A small but always persistent discipline is a great force; for a soft drop falling persistently, hollows out hard rock." | |
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+ | "The Lord's Day is a mystery of the knowledge of the truth that is not received by flesh and blood, and it transcends speculations. In this age there is no eighth day, nor is there a true Sabbath. For he who said that `God rested on the seventh day,' signified the rest [of our nature] from the course of this life, since the grave is also of a bodily nature and belongs to this world. Six days are accomplished in the husbandry of life by means of keeping the commandments; the seventh is spent entirely in the grave; and the eighth is the departure from it." -- ''The Ascetical Homilies'', I | ||
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+ | "Why do you trouble yourself in a house that is not your own? Let the sight of a dead man be a teacher for you concerning your departure from hence." | ||
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+ | "The knowledge of the Cross is concealed in the sufferings of the Cross." | ||
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+ | "The man who follows Christ in solitary mourning is greater than he who praises Christ amid the congregation of men." | ||
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+ | "Why do you increase your bonds? Take hold of your life before your light grows dark and you seek help and do not find it. This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits." | ||
==Sources/external links== | ==Sources/external links== |
Revision as of 04:29, May 13, 2006
Quotations
"Be persecuted, rather than be a persecutor. Be crucified, rather than be a crucifier. Be treated unjustly, rather than treat anyone unjustly. Be oppressed, rather than zealous. Lay hold of goodness, rather than justice."
"A small but always persistent discipline is a great force; for a soft drop falling persistently, hollows out hard rock."
"The Lord's Day is a mystery of the knowledge of the truth that is not received by flesh and blood, and it transcends speculations. In this age there is no eighth day, nor is there a true Sabbath. For he who said that `God rested on the seventh day,' signified the rest [of our nature] from the course of this life, since the grave is also of a bodily nature and belongs to this world. Six days are accomplished in the husbandry of life by means of keeping the commandments; the seventh is spent entirely in the grave; and the eighth is the departure from it." -- The Ascetical Homilies, I
"Why do you trouble yourself in a house that is not your own? Let the sight of a dead man be a teacher for you concerning your departure from hence."
"The knowledge of the Cross is concealed in the sufferings of the Cross."
"The man who follows Christ in solitary mourning is greater than he who praises Christ amid the congregation of men."
"Why do you increase your bonds? Take hold of your life before your light grows dark and you seek help and do not find it. This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits."
Sources/external links
Categories > Church History
Categories > Church History
Categories > Church History
Categories > Church History
Categories > Church History
Categories > Liturgics > Feasts
Categories > Liturgics > Feasts
Categories > Liturgics > Feasts
Categories > Liturgics > Feasts
Categories > People > Clergy > Bishops
Categories > People > Clergy > Bishops > Bishops by century > 7th-century bishops
Categories > People > Monastics
Categories > People > Saints
Categories > People > Saints > Church Fathers
Categories > People > Saints > Saints by century > 7th-century saints
Categories > People > Saints > Syrian Saints