Words from the Saints -- July 31, 2025
Gerald Largent
"A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love." --St. Basil the Great
"To cling always to God and to the things of God--this must be our major effort, this must be the road that the heart follows unswervingly." --St. John Cassian
"Prayer is an excellent task for the servants of Christ above all others, for the other things are ministries and secondary... Truly this is the task entrusted to us by God, and the crown of all else." --St. Simeon of Thessalonica
"So then, brethren, let us not fall, let us not lose heart, but let us all stand together, as good soldiers of Christ, bearing our arms, not physical ones, but ones empowered by God, for the destruction of strongholds, that is to say: prudence, courage, temperance and justice; and with them fulfilling that which was said by God." --St. Theodore the Studite