“Christianity shows its greatness when it is hated by the world.” — St Ignatius of Antioch
"The
deadly cancer of anger makes us unlike
ourselves. It makes us timber wolves or furies from hell. It drives
us forth headlong upon the points of swords. It makes us blindly run
forth after other men's destruction as we hasten to our own ruin."
-
St. Thomas More
"For the desire of your heart is itself your prayer. And if the desire is constant, so is your prayer.... Whatever else you may be doing, if you but fix your desire on God..... that voice of your prayer will be silent only when your love ceases." - St. Augustine
"Woe to the path that is not walked on, or along which the voices of men are not heard, for then it becomes the haunt of wild animals. Woe to the soul if the Lord does not walk within it to banish with His voice the spiritual beasts of sin."
- from a homily of St Macarius
"All the members together make up the body of Christ in the unity of the Spirit, and render each other a necessary service through their gifts. God has arranged the various parts of the body according to his own will, but there exists among them all a spiritual fellowship which makes it natural for them to share one another's feelings and to be concerned for one another."
- St Basil the Great