مار إسحق السرياني - St. Isaac the Syrian

[virgen mary]

Why do you trouble yourself in a house that is not your own? Let the sight of a dead man be a teacher for you concerning your departure from hence.


The knowledge of the Cross is concealed in the sufferings of the Cross.


The man who follows Christ in solitary mourning is greater than he who praises Christ amid the congregation of men.


Why do you increase your bonds? Take hold of your life before your light grows dark and you seek help and do not find it. This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits.


Let yourself die in striving rather than living in laziness. For those who die trying to keep the commandments are martyrs just as those who died for Christ’s faith.