So, examine the circumstances around you.
Perhaps the job for which you have applied several times is not God’s plan for you to get. You may need to apply in another company, for another job. You need to look at the circumstances. Yes, there are some doors which will be closed, but this does not mean that God does not like you, God hates you, God rejects you, God does not love you. It does not mean all of these. It can simply mean that this is not the will of God for you. Look at the open doors. But, also, I want to warn you here that not every open door is necessarily the will of God. That is why you need to follow the mentioned steps not only this one step.
—H.E. Metropolitan Youssef, How to Know the Will of God
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And he endured injustice and the harshness of the rich man, who walked in front of him day and night without paying him attention, not even giving him some food. And it is amazing that when the Lord told us the story of Lazarus, he did not mention any other virtue in the life of Lazarus, except this virtue, that he endured poverty, being in need, without grumbling or complaining.
—H.E. Metropolitan Youssef, How to Endure Injustice
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‘Sometimes seeing their fault distresses them more than the thing that disturbs them, for unable to help themselves they are affected by earthly happenings even though these may not be very burdensome.’
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And you, therefore, if you stay in your house, if you are held fast in your bed, do not think that you are living an unproductive life.
For you are enduring something more grievous than what you have suffered at the hands of public torturers, by whom you have been dragged, savagely attacked, stretched to the utmost-and that is this extreme infirmity of yours, which is like having a public torturer continually residing in your house. But do not therefore either desire your end or neglect your health; for that is not safe. Therefore Paul heartily advises Timothy to take the greatest care of himself. But about your illness—it’s enough to say these things.
—Saint John Chrysostom, Letters to Saint Olympia
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Cease, therefore, your crying, and stop torturing yourself with grief. And do not look only upon the torments that have been afflicting you ceaselessly one after another, but also consider the swiftness with which you have been freed from them, and the ineffable reward and recompense that they bring.
—Saint John Chrysostom, Letters to Saint Olympia
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“I spent these past two months no better than dead—yea, even worse than dead. I was surviving just enough to perceive the terrible things encircling me everywhere. All was night to me—the day, the dawn, the height of noonday—and I spent the whole time nailed to my bed.”
—Saint John Chrysostom, Letters to Saint Olympia
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“You do not know what is good for you: health or sickness.”
—St. Basil the Great
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