And let the righteous be glad;
Let them greatly rejoice before God;
Let them be glad with merriment.
Sing to God; sing to His name;
Make ready the way for Him
Who rides upon the sunset;
His name is the Lord
(Ps 67:4-5, Septuagint)
They prepared a trap for my feet,
and they bowed down my soul;
They dug a pit before my face,
but they fell into it.
(Ps 56:7)
Me have they hurt, or themselves?
Behold He has been exalted above the Heavens, God, and behold above all the earth the Glory of […]
There is not in that place any want at all;
but it is full of light, and life, and grace, and fullness, and satisfaction and renewal, and love,
and all the good promises that are written but not yet sealed.
For there is there that “which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, and which […]
Whatever good thing I have said, whatever true thing I have said,
of God I have said it, and from God I have said it;
whatever other thing perchance I have said, which I ought not to have said,
as a man I have said [it].
St. Augustine
“Men of blood and deceit shall not live even half their days” (Ps 54:24),
because in man they have hoped.
But I from days temporal have reached unto day eternal.
Why?
Because in You I have hoped, O Lord.
St. Augustine, commentary on the Psalms
But what was the message sent by his sisters? “Lord, behold, he whom You love is ill.”
They did not say, “Come,” for the intimation was all that was needed for One who loved.
They did not venture to say, “Come and heal him,” nor did they venture to say, “Command there, and […]
Now if all were to take fasting as the counselor for their actions,
nothing would prevent a profound peace from spreading throughout the entire world.
Nations would not rise up against one another, nor would armies clash in battle.
If fasting prevailed, weapons would not be wrought, courts of justice would not be erected, people […]
Whenever in your path you find unchanging peace, beware:
you are very far from the divine paths trodden by the weary feet of the saints.
St. Isaac the Syrian