Words from the Saints -- March 4, 2021
Gerald Largent
"Seek God at least late, since He has now for a long time been warning and exhorting you through the prophet, saying: 'Seek God, and your soul shall live.'" --St. Cyprian of Carthage
"We should realize that there are three sources for our thoughts - God, the devil, and ourselves." --St. John Cassian
"God knows Himself and He knows the things He has created. The angelic powers, too, know God and know the things He has created. But they do not know God and the things He has created in the same way that God knows Himself and the things He has created." --St. Maximos the Confessor
"One man received a thought and accepted it without examination. Another received a thought and tested its truth. Which of them acted with greater reverence?" --St. Mark the Ascetic
"Almost every sin is committed for the sake of sensual pleasure; and sensual pleasure is overcome by hardship and distress arising either voluntarily from repentance, or else involuntarily as a result of some salutary and providential reversal. 'For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged; but when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, so that we should not be condemned with the world.' (1 Corinthians 11:31-32)" --St. Maximos the Confessor
"Just as a tempered metal can sharpen soft or rusty metal, so can a zealous Christian set a tepid one on the right track." --St. John Climacus