...God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world....
Ignatius: Stop your ears, therefore, when any one speaks to you at variance with Jesus Christ
Stop your ears, therefore, when any one speaks to you at variance with Jesus Christ
Maximus the Confessor: Perfect Love…loves all men equally…
our Lord and God Jesus Christ, manifesting his love for us, suffered for all mankind and granted to all equally the hope of resurrection, though each one renders himself worthy either of glory or of punishment.
Understanding the Sons of God in Genesis 6
Genesis 6:1-4 illustrates the perilous consequences of the sons of God entering unequally yoked unions with the daughters of men, which resulted in the near total corruption of the primordial humans dwelling upon the Earth.
Alexander of Alexandria: On the Significance of Christ Death
For our Lord was made man; He was condemned that He might impart compassion; He was bound that He might set free; He was apprehended that He might liberate; He suffered that He might heal our sufferings; He died to restore life to us; He was buried to raise us up.