Chapter 15 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Good Monday Morning to this week 15 of 2022 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2016 I started writing this blog – I started the first few weeks
with a few quotes and a few notes, thought I’d do that once again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sticking to the current events and crises I will stay in the region of the conflicts.
Here a few Eastern Orthodox quotes to think about. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice
and to plant virtue. St. Catherine of Siena<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The most beautiful act of faith is the one made in darkness,
in sacrifice, and with extreme effort. St. Padre Pio<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You don\u2019t become holy by fighting evil. Let evil be. Look towards
Christ and that will save you. What makes a person saintly is love.
St. Porphyrios<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If God is love, he who has love has God within himself.
St. Maximus<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To God, love is not an emotion but a self-offering.
Matta El Meskeen<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Acquire a peaceful spirit and thousands around you will
be saved. St Seraphim of Sarov<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To be a good servant of God means having patience with yourself in
your daily failings and peacefully tolerating your neighbor with all his
or her imperfections. St. Francis de Sales<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If the intention is unclean the deed that follows from it will also
be evil, even if it seems it is good. St. Gregory the Great<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The deeds you do may be the only sermon some person will hear today.
St Francis<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Conquer men by your gentle kindness, and make zealous
men wonder at your goodness. Put the lover of justice to shame with your
compassion. With the afflicted be afflicted in mind. Love all men,
but keep distant from all men. St Isaac the Syrian<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I saw the snares that the enemy spreads in the world and I said
groaning. What can I get through such snares?
Then I heard a voice saying to me, Humility! St. Anthony the Great<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And I saw the river over which every soul must pass to reach the
Kingdom of heaven and the name of that river was suffering. And I
saw a boat which carries souls across the river and the name of
that boat was love. St John of the Cross.
Wishing you a good start to this new week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Philemon <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chapter 15 Good Monday Morning to this week 15 of 2022 In 2016 I started writing this blog – I started the first few weeks with a few quotes and a few notes, thought I’d do that once again. Sticking to the current events and crises I will stay in the region of the conflicts. … <\/p>\n