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Showing posts with label silence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label silence. Show all posts

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Quote of the Day: St. Zena Marqos

Never permit your tongue to utter a word unless you are convinced that what you say is beneficial either for yourself or for whom you are saying it.

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Quote of the Day: St. Ignatius of Antioch

It is better for a man to be silent and be [a Christian], than to talk and not to be one. It is good to teach, if he who speaks also acts. There is then one Teacher, who spake and it was done; while even those things which He did in silence are worthy of the Father. He who possesses the word of Jesus, is truly able to hear even His very silence, that he may be perfect, and may both act as he speaks, and be recognised by his silence. There is nothing which is hid from God, but our very secrets are near to Him. Let us therefore do all things as those who have Him dwelling in us, that we may be His temples...