truisms

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 27 December 2006 11:40 am

Seek God daily. But seek Him in your heart, not outside it. And when you find Him, stand with fear and trembling, like the Cherubim and Seraphim, for your heart has become a throne of God. But in order to find God, become humble as dust before the Lord, for the Lord abhors the proud; whereas He visits those that are humble in heart, wherefore He says: "To whom will I look, but to the one who is meek and humble in heart?"

St. Nectarius of Aegina

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 27 December 2006 11:45 am

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 27 December 2006 11:46 am

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Mother Teresa

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 27 December 2006 11:48 am

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa

Keep your mind from malicious thoughts of your neighbors, knowing that such thoughts are hurled by diabolical power, to keep your mind from your own sins and from seeking God.

Our Holy Father Elias of Egypt, November 3, Prologue

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 27 December 2006 11:51 am

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

Mother Teresa

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 27 December 2006 11:52 am

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

Mother Teresa

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 27 December 2006 12:03 pm

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

Mother Teresa

In our case, a murder being once for all forbidden, we may not destroy even the fetus in the womb, while as yet the human being derives blood from the other parts of the body for its sustenance. To hinder a birth is merely a speedier man-killing; nor does it matter whether you take away a life that is born, or destroy one that is coming to birth. That is a man which is going to be one; you have the fruit already in its seed"

210 AD Tertullian Apology 9:8).