Listen to your conscience…
If you want spiritual health, listen to your conscience, do all it tells you, and you will benefit. God and our conscience know our secrets. Let them correct us.
–Saint Mark the Ascetic (Fifth Century)
Knowledge of what is good…
Knowledge of what is good for him has been given to everyone by God; but self-indulgence leads to negligence, and negligence to forgetfulness.
–Saint Mark the Ascetic (Fifth Century)
This is called conscience…
When God created man He sowed in him something divine, a certain thought which has in itself, like a spark, both light and warmth; a thought which enlightens the mind and indicates to it what is good and what is evil—this is called conscience, and it is a natural law.
–Saint Dorotheus of Gaza (Sixth Century)
–Saint Dorotheus of Gaza (Sixth Century)
In the image of God…
All of us who are human beings are in the image of God. But to be in his likeness belongs only to those who by great love have attached their freedom to God.
–Saint Diadochus of Photike (c. 400 – c. 486)
God built heaven and earth…
God built heaven and earth to be the dwelling place of the human race. But He also built the human body and soul to make them His own abode, so that He might dwell therein and rest there as in a well kept house. . . In their houses, human beings carefully accumulate their wealth. The Lord in His house, our soul and body, amasses and stores up the heavenly riches of the Spirit.
–Pseudo-Macarius (Fifth Century)
The Christian is one who…
The Christian is one who imitates Christ in thought, word and deed, as far as is possible for human beings, believing rightly and blamelessly in the Holy Trinity.
–Saint John Climacus (c. 525-606)
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