Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself. He can with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation in whatever pursuit he may have singled out. Silently, between all the details of his business, the power of judging in all that class of matter will have built itself up within him as a possession that will never pass away. Young people should know this truth in advance. The ignorance of it has probably engendered more discouragement and faint-heartedness in youths embarking on arduous careers than all other causes put together.
Work
Hugh Black
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…you’re committing to forgiving or to letting go of something, some resentment, hoping that your emotional part of self would come and follow the action—the right action that you made…And so I go and do that [forgive] even though I don’t want to do it. I have no desire to do it, no inclination to do it. My feelings are actually in opposition to that action. But once I act in accordance with love, then love starts to take root in my heart.
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A very important exercise to practice to attain the fear of the Lord is this: do not do in secret what you are ashamed to do before people. Do not have any thought which you cannot reveal before people. Say to yourself, “I should be ashamed from God who sees me and examines my thoughts, my intentions and the desires of my heart.
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Try, then, to be righteous before yourself as much as you are before others. Avoid any speculation which would make you embarrassed if others knew it, likewise with your deeds and emotions.
Fear of God
H.H. Pope Shenouda III -
God has ordered the obedience of the parents and not to disdain their instructions. Even when a son grows up and discusses any matter with his father, he has to do it with great reverence. He should not talk with him as if they were of the same footing, but he has always to remember the respect and reverence of fatherhood.
Fear of God
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People’s Respect for You
Do not demand that people respect you,… but leave them to feel respect for you of their own accord because they find in you qualities which compel their respect. So do not find fault with another person if he has not shown you respect. On the contrary, it would be better to find fault with yourself, and consider that you have acted in a way that has diminished other people’s respect for you. Be sure that you know that respect is one thing but fear is something else. People may fear you on account of your position or power or strength, but this does not mean that they respect you. Respect is an inner feeling of reverence in praise of certain exalted qualities or humane or spiritual values.
Experiences in Life
H.H. Pope Shenouda III -
It is true that love cannot be forced, that it cannot be made to order, that we cannot love because we ought to, or even because we want to. But we can bring ourselves into the presence of the lovable.
We can enter into friendship through the door of discipleship; we can learn love through service, and the day will come to us also when the Master’s word will be true: “I call you no longer servant, but I call you friend.” His love will take possession of us until all else will seem as hatred in comparison.
The Art of Being a Good Friend
Hugh Black -
Everyone who enters into the covenant knows the world to be a spiritual arena in which the love of God manifests itself. He walks no longer on a sodden earth and under a gray sky, for he knows that, although all people misunderstand him, he is understood, and followed with loving sympathy, in Heaven.
The Art of Being a Good Friend
Hugh Black
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