truisms

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 21 February 2007 8:57 am

There therefore can be no laboring towards Christ that is not Christ’s labor as well. So what labor do we perform? We fast - He fasted. We repent - He submitted to Baptism. We pray - He prayed. We give alms - He showed mercy to all. And more than this, we do all these things not merely of ourselves, but by Christ, through Christ and in Christ. So that He can say to us, “Inasmuch as you did it unto the least of these my brethren you did it unto Me.”
Fr Stephen Freeman

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 22 February 2007 7:36 am

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
Bertrand Russell

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 22 February 2007 7:39 am

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Bertrand Russell

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 22 February 2007 7:43 am

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand Russell

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 22 February 2007 7:47 am

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Bertrand Russell

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 22 February 2007 8:40 am

Without repentance, there can be no belief in the God Who Is. To know God - to actually know Him - repentance is indispensable. Only a broken and contrite heart can know God.
Fr Stephen Freeman

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 22 February 2007 8:42 am

To be broken by grace and crushed by the hand of God is far kinder than the treatment we receive from the world.
Fr Stephen Freeman