SO GOOD QUOTES

Author: SO GOOD QUOTES

  • Always keep the same measure of self-control; otherwise through irregularity you will go from one extreme to another.

    —St. Thalassios the Libyan

  • How true is the saying, “The road to hell is full of excuses!”

    —H.H. Pope Shenouda III, Words of Spiritual Benefit Vol. 1

  • 36. In everything that we do God searches out our purpose to see whether we do it for Him or for some other motive.

    —St. Maximos the Confessor, Four Hundred Texts on Love

  • “He who believes the divine Scriptures with sure judgment, receives in the voice of God a demonstration that cannot be disputed. Faith, then, is not established by demonstration.”

    —Clement of Alexandria

  • God waits for the right moment to come and illumine your intellect. What you’ve been craving for one, two, three, five, twenty, or fifty years, you’ll be given in a moment.

    —Elder Aimilianos Simonopetritis

  • You will get as many opinions – if not more – from the number of people you talk to.


    —Fr. Antony Paul, Discerning God’s Will

  • “You will always be able to tell your parents or siblings or close friends’ voices even if you can’t see them or they are really far away. If you love someone, you can easily recognize their voice. Can you say the same for Christ? Do you know His voice? You must be able to recognize God’s voice even if you can’t see Him.”

    —Fr. Bishoy El Antony

  • 169. SPARE TIME

    The one who knows the value of time would use it for his benefit. This person would never have spare time, because his time will never be enough for the responsibilities that he has.

    The one with spare time must have empty space in his life that has not been filled yet. Having emptiness in life, in aim or in ambition is really a sad matter!

    Therefore, those with great endeavours never have spare time.

    Those with ambitions in life. either spiritual or academic or even materialistic would have no spare time.

    Spare time is the result of man’s failure to know how to use his time. Once he does, this problem would not be there any more.

    The problem of spare time could face the old or those who reached the retiring age and thought that their message in life has ended. Their life became without job and without aim!

    Those people need to search for a job so their world does not become boring and a burden on them.

    The spiritual concept of using the spare time is not to look for a way to pass time! It is looking for a way to benefit from time.

    Time is a part of life and it is unlawful to kill it or waste it uselessly.

    —H.H. Pope Shenouda III, Words of Spiritual Benefit Vol. IV

  • “A bad word makes even good people bad, but a good word turns even bad people into good.”

    +Saint Macarius of Egypt

  • A hermit said, “This is the monastic life: not to live with the wicked, not to see evil, not to be inquisitive, not to be curious, not to listen to gossip, not to use the hands for taking, but for giving; not to be proud in heart or bad in thought, not to fill the belly, in everything to judge wisely.  That is the life of the true monk.”

    The Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian Monks
    Benedicta Ward