OrthodoxFathers.org » Saint Macarius http://orthodoxfathers.org Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:44:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Humble yourself before the Lord http://orthodoxfathers.org/humble-yourself-before-the-lord.htm http://orthodoxfathers.org/humble-yourself-before-the-lord.htm#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:51:04 +0000 chris http://orthodoxfathers.org/?p=345 “God, for your sake humbled Himself, and you will not be humbled for your own sake?! The Lord Himself who is the Way and is God, after He came not on His own behalf but for you so that He might be an example for you of everything good, see, He came in such humility, taking “the form of a slave” [Philippians 2:7], He Who is God, the Son of God, King, the Son of King … But do not despise His divine dignity, as you look at Him, externally humiliated as one like us. For our sakes He so appeared, not for Himself… When they spat in His face and placed a crown of thorns on Him and hit Him, what more humiliation could He have yet undergone?… If God condescends to such insults and sufferings and humiliation, you, who by nature are clay and are mortal, no matter how much you are humiliated, will never do anything similar to what your Master did. God, for your sake, humbled Himself and you will not be humbled for your own sake?!”

Originally posted 2009-07-30 16:28:40.

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to put on Christ completely, do not need so much to be put in re
membrance by others, nor do they endure, even for a while, to be
deprived of the heavenly desire and of passionate affection to the
Lord; but being wholly and entirely nailed to the cross of Christ,
they perceive in themselves day by day a sense of spiritual
advance towards the spiritual Bridegroom.

Originally posted 2006-04-17 19:52:33.

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thousand righteousnesses, esteems itself as having wrought
nothing, by reason of its insatiable aspiration after God. Though
it should exhaust the body with fastings, with watchings, its
attitude towards the virtues is as if it had not yet even begun to
labour for them.

Originally posted 2006-04-17 19:50:53.

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