Sayings of The Holy Fathers:
Where a resolute disposition and desire are lacking, even easy things appear difficult - though the reverse is true as well.
St. Peter of Damaskos
Book 1: A Treasury of Divine Knowledge, The Philokalia Vol. 3 pg. 181
The only hope of salvation from the delusions and the heresies, the innovations and the traps of wicked people and of the devil is prayer, repentance and humility.
Elder Joseph the Hesychast
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O strange and inconceivable thing! We did not really die, we were not really buried, we were not really crucified and raised again; but our imitation was in a figure, and our salvation in reality. Christ was actually crucified, and actually buried, and truly rose again. And all these things He has freely bestowed upon us, that we, sharing His sufferings by imitation, might gain salvation in reality. O surpassing loving-kindness! Christ received nails in His undefiled hands and feet, and suffered anguish; while on me without pain or toil by the fellowship of His suffering He freely bestows salvation!
St. Cyril of Jerusalem
St. Peter of Damaskos
Book 1: A Treasury of Divine Knowledge, The Philokalia Vol. 3 pg. 181
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The only hope of salvation from the delusions and the heresies, the innovations and the traps of wicked people and of the devil is prayer, repentance and humility.
Elder Joseph the Hesychast
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O strange and inconceivable thing! We did not really die, we were not really buried, we were not really crucified and raised again; but our imitation was in a figure, and our salvation in reality. Christ was actually crucified, and actually buried, and truly rose again. And all these things He has freely bestowed upon us, that we, sharing His sufferings by imitation, might gain salvation in reality. O surpassing loving-kindness! Christ received nails in His undefiled hands and feet, and suffered anguish; while on me without pain or toil by the fellowship of His suffering He freely bestows salvation!
St. Cyril of Jerusalem
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