Category: FAITH

  • Even all the incidents you experience are permitted by God so you can gain a spiritual benefit from them…

    There are those who become nervously, psychologically or mentally affected by incidents. Others are affected spiritually by whatever events they experience; everything that happens to them makes them closer to God….

    The people that you meet, are sent by God. Passing your way, they are for your own spiritual benefit, if you know how to benefit from them.

    The righteous present you with an example and a blessing, while you benefit endurance, patience, and forgiveness for others from evil.

    —H.H. Pope Shenouda III, WORDS OF SPIRITUAL BENEFIT VOL. II

  • Truly God has many solutions… We think of our problems, using our human mind, which is limited. As for God He is unlimited in His knowledge and His wisdom. When matters become complicated, their complication is relative for us human beings. As for God nothing becomes complicated, everything is easy and the solutions are many. God interferes at the right time and in the suitable way. It could be a solution that never crossed our minds, one that we never thought of or expected…

    —H.H. Pope Shenouda III, WORDS OF SPIRITUAL BENEFIT VOL. II

  • Some cannot wait for death, and some are terrified of death. This becomes a marker for which life I’m walking.

    —Fr. Mina Dimitri

  • We are called to reflect the light of God, we are called to reflect His light—not to be preoccupied with darkness. We’re actually called to be preoccupied with light, to be so focused, so obsessed with light, that we spread that light everywhere we go. And because of this, we often think that being modest means that we should hide that light—that if there are some fruits in me, that I should hide it. I’m very careful about what I say. I’m so scared that perhaps my pride will get in the way. I’m so scared that perhaps I’ll be judged if I speak about my Christianity, if I speak about the love of God in the world, and we hide it, but this is exactly what Jesus is saying we shouldn’t do because if we never use those fruits, and we keep them hidden under our bed, those fruits begin to rot.

    —Fr. Daniel Fanous

  • The reliance on people prevents total reliance on God, and outward comforts prevents true comfort.

    —St. Isaac the Syrian

  • All of us have problems, but where do we escape to during these problems? Do we run to people, do we run to priests, or do we run to God?

    When we’re in a situation that requires saving, where do we go? We go to other saviors. I’m running to other things besides Christ.

    —Fr. Elijah Estafanous

  • The practice of virtue and contemplation on the love of God makes one face death without fear or tears knowing that death is inevitable from one side and another side frees us from all our diseases.

    —St. Antony the Great

  • It doesn’t matter what our citizenship is, it doesn’t matter what our status is here or there, it doesn’t matter if we’re married not married, if we have kids or don’t have kids, if we have a job or don’t have a job—none of that matters because we are children of God. And as a father takes care of his child, so God will take care of us. And if we find ourselves in points in our lives where we feel like God has abandoned us, it is not He who has abandoned us—it’s we who have abandoned Him.

    —Fr. Daniel Habib

  • Nature’s greatnesses have their own way of striking with admiration; they do not need the pleading of words: the sky, for instance, or the sun, or any other wonder of the universe.

    —Gregory of Nyssa, On Virginity, Chap 23

  • When you are confused and you don’t know the voice of God, you have to ask yourself, When was the last time I read my Bible? “Father, so the Bible is going to solve my problem? God is going to tell me the answer?” One hundred percent. One hundred percent. When I learn to hear His voice, He will show me the answer.

    —Fr. Mina Dimitri