"The body which lives in its lusts is considered dead even though it is throbbing with life, as the Apostle said, '...the body is dead because of sin' (Rom.8:10)"

+ Pope Shenouda +

"Be faithful in what is within your will's capability then God will entrust you with what is beyond your will. Be faithful in resisting the wilful sins then God will entrust you with the resistance of the unintentional sins"

+ Pope Shenouda +

"Rashness is the hastiness which is void of study and scrutiny. It is perilous if connected with essential matters or destinies. That is why I always say: The right solution is not the fast solution but the perfect solution"

+ Pope Shenouda +

"If the devil approaches you to tempt you and finds you with no Bible or psalm, no prayer or contemplation, no spiritual meditation or spiritual gathering, with no fasts or prostrations, with neither confession nor Holy Communion, what state will you be in? And how will you be able to resist sin without any weapon?"

+ Pope Shenouda +

"He who is meticulous is circumspect over his time, seeing that it is part of his life. He does not spend one minute of it regretfully or uselessly"

+ Pope Shenouda +

"One of the devil's practices is that he feels your pulse first: Would you give way to him even in the very smallest matter? If you would he dares to move to a greater matter. If you open before him a little hole, even the size of a needle's eye, he will attack you more violently because there and then he realises that your faithfulness to God is not perfect"

+ Pope Shenouda +

"Be faithful in controlling your intellect and senses because the senses are the doors to the intellect, and the intellect is a door through which lusts enter into the heart"

+ Pope Shenouda +

"The more the value of eternal life is elevated in your mind and in your heart, the less the value of the world becomes in your sight"

+ Pope Shenouda +

"If you do good to your enemy, you will be more righteous than if you had done so with your friend or relative"

+ Pope Shenouda +

"Three persons stood on the Mount of Transfiguration, each gloriously illumined. Each had excelled in fasting; each had fasted forty days and forty nights. They were Christ the Lord, glory be to Him, Moses and Elijah. Does this glorious scene conceal behind it an important notion- that in subduing the body through fasting, the spirit transfigures, and the body transfigures? Did Christ the Lord choose two of those who fasted to appear with Him on the Mount of Transfiguration, to show us that the nature which will be transfigured in eternity will be that which, through fasting, subdued the body?"

+ Pope Shenouda +

[Taken from 'Sanctify a Fast']

"And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My names sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life. But many who are first will be last, and the last first"

+ Matthew 19:30 +

"Do not look to the problem, but to the One who will solve it. Your feeling that God is standing with you in your problem gives you hope and strength"

+ Pope Shenouda +

"With men it is impossible, but not with God; for with God all things are possible."

+ Mark 10:27 +

"Tears have a voice that God hears even without prayer; they have a response from God's tender Heart"

+ Pope Shenouda +

"Satan's game is to find something that will make a person happy other than God"

+ Pope Shenouda +

"Indeed, God has many solutions. We think of our problems with our human mind, and our mind is limited; as for God, His knowledge and His wisdom have no limits. When matters become difficult, the difficulty is relative, that is, for us human beings. As for God, there is nothing difficult. Everything is easy and the solutions are numerous"

+ Pope Shenouda +

"You reigned upon the Cross...
You reigned over the world which Satan had taken through sin,
and You purchased it upon the Cross by Your Blood
so You became a King upon the Cross...
Your Blood suffices to purchase the whole world
from every race and from every colour..."

+ Pope Shenouda +

"During Holy Week, do not be a source of suffering to anyone. If Christ in this Holy Week bore the sins of the world, say, 'I, too, will bear the sins of others' "
+ Pope Shenouda +

"It is better for a person to force himself than to be forced by events and trials. The difference between the saints and ordinary people is that the saints forced themselves to practice virtue from the beginning until they got used to it and loved it"

+ Pope Shenouda +