[Mary Naeem]

By H.H. Pope Shenouda III

Do you think, my brother who worship God, that you will lay a foundation in the church with your knowledge and culture! Oh you are poor! Truly I say to you that if you are not freed from dependence on your own knowledge, you will not approach God. God will not also bless your ministry because if you do succeed in your ministry, people will ascribe this success to what the world granted you of certificates and scientific degrees.. Thus God's glory would be robbed and given to the world.