When Joseph’s brothers saw their father was dead, they said,
“Perhaps Joseph will hate us, and may actually repay us for all the evil we did to him.”
So they came to Joseph, saying, “Before your father died he commanded, saying,
‘Thus you shall say to Joseph, “I beg you, forgive the injustice of […]
“Why do you boast in evil, O mighty man”?
(Ps 51:3 Septuagint)
That is, he that in malice is mighty, why does he glory?
There is need that a man be mighty, but in goodness, not in malice.
Is it any great thing to glory in malice?
To build a house belongs […]
The heart of a wise man shall understand the things from his own mouth
(Prov 16:21, Septuagint)
Save me, O Lord, for the godly one has ceased, and the truths have diminished from the children of men.
Every one has spoken vanities to his friend.
Deceiving lips are in their hearts, and thus they have spoken with their hearts.
The Lord shall wipe out every deceiving lip, and every tongue that speaks boastful things;
those […]
Neglect not the wounded and feeble, but that you may more easily make whole, whole you ought to be.
Correct by reproving, comfort by addressing, set an example by living well, He will be with them that has been with you…
Where you have come they will come; where you […]
No man has understanding if he is not humble,
and he who lacks humility is devoid of understanding.
No man is humble if he is not peaceful,
and he who is not peaceful is not humble.
And no man is peaceful without rejoicing.
St. Isaac the Syrian
But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of stress.
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents,
ungrateful, unholy, inhuman, implacable, slanderers, profligates, fierce,
haters of good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of […]
He who raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise us up also with Jesus (2 Cor 4:14).
For God, Who never lies, promised this; the Truth promised this in His gospel, when He said:
“This is the will of Him who sent Me, that I should lose […]
If you want to be constantly inflamed, mix with strong persons, and with those who are fervent in Spirit,
the meticulous and those who are full of love and faith.
If you do not find strong persons to mix with, live with the life-stories of the saints.
Pope Shenouda III
The enemy will never cease to cast into your house, if he possibly can, impurity of every kind.
It is your duty neither to refuse nor neglect to throw out that which is cast in,
for if you are negligent your house will become filled with impurity,
and you will be unable to enter in […]