SO GOOD QUOTES

Such a person does good without waiting for a commandment. His good nature makes him in no need of a call to do good.

He does good because it is in his nature, being in God’s image. He does good as a habitual thing, as a breath coming out, without feeling that he is doing something strange or beyond his ability.

So, seeing it is something normal, he does not boast of doing it.

On the contrary, he who does not love good finds God’s commandment heavy, and he becomes an enemy to God! He feels that God deprives him of the pleasure of sinning, and that His commandment restricts him, leading him in a way he does not want. Thus God’s way becomes difficult to him and he walks in it forcibly, if ever he does!

—H.H. Pope Shenouda III, Fruits of the Spirit