"If... God highly exalted Christ because He humbled Himself, suffered dishonour, was tempted and endured a shameful cross and death for our sake, how will He save, glorify and raise us up if we neither choose humility, nor show love to our fellows, nor gain our souls by enduring temptation (cf. Lk. 21:19), nor follow the saving Guide through the 'strait gate' and along the 'narrow way' leading to eternal life (Mt. 7:14)? To this end we were called, says Peter, the chief Apostle, ' Because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example that we should follow His steps' (I Pet. 2:21)."

-- Gregory Palamas

#Christian Quotes #Humility Quotes #Cfs Quotes

“One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death.”
“The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands, nor in the perfection of their bodies, but in this one sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight in one blow, to live eternity in an hour.”
“Here are two dichotomies here. In the West it is a very physical practice, and even meditation is a practice to become productive and more at peace. In the East, you think of the deep spiritual practices as a journey of complete dissolution of the self, the ego.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
“I'm always sticking up for other people.”

Source : "Sophie's world". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2002.
“The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.”
“Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can't communicate anything meaningful.”

Source : G. Willow Wilson (2010). “The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam”, p.261, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“To be fully human is...to know that it's possible to face the unimaginable and somehow put one foot in front of the other.”
“Science, like nothing else among the institutions of mankind, grows like a weed every year. Art is subject to arbitrary fashion, religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself, law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.”

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