Quotes by Dorotheus of Gaza

Dorotheus of Gaza

‘My sheep hear My voice’ (Jn. 10:14). This is just another way of saying, ‘They obey my words and keep My commandments.’ Obeying the commandments the saints draw near to God; the more they draw near to God, the better they know Him.

Christian

Sheep

Voice

A great means to preserve continual peace and tranquillity of soul is to receive everything from the hands of God, both great and small, and in whatever way it comes.

Hands

Mean

Soul

A man obtains the fear of God if he has the remembrance of his unavoidable death and of the eternal torments that await sinners; If he tests himself every evening as to how he has spent the day, and every morning as to how he has spent the night, and if is not sharp in his relations with others.

Christian

Inspirational

Religious

A man who gives way to his passions is like a man who is shot by an enemy, catches the arrow in his hands, and then plunges it into his own heart. A man who is resisting his passions is like a man who is shot by an enemy, and although the arrow hits him, it does not seriously wound him because he is wearing a breastplate. But the man who is uprooting his passions is like a man who is shot by an enemy, but who strikes the arrow and shatters it or turns it back into his enemies heart.

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Men

Passion

A man who prays without ceasing, if he achieves something, knows why he achieved it, and can take no pride in it… for he cannot attribute it to his own powers, but attributes all his achievements to God, always renders thanks to him and constantly calls upon him, trembling lest he be deprived of help.

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Men

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Again, after his fall, God gave him an occasion to repent and to receive mercy but he kept his stiff-neck held high. He came to him and said “Adam, Where are you?” instead of saying “What glory you have left and what dishonor you have arrived at?” After that, He asked him “Why did you sin? Why did you transgress the commandment?” By asking these questions, He wanted to give him the opportunity to say, “Forgive me.” However, he did not ask for forgiveness. There was no humility, there was no repentance, but indeed the opposite.

Fall

Humility

Opportunity

By accepting a suspicion against the neighbor, by saying, ‘What does it matter if I put in a word about my suspicion? What does it matter if I find out what my brother is saying or what a guest is doing?’ the mind begins to forget about its own sins and to talk idly about his neighbor, speaking evil against him, despising him, and from this he falls into the very thing he condemns. Because we become careless about our own faults and do not lament our own death, we lose the power to correct ourselves and we are always at work on our neighbor.

Brother

Christian

Fall

By keeping the Commandments the soul is purified and the mind too is enlightened, and starts to function as nature intended it to. ‘The command of the Lord gives light and enlightens the eyes’ (Ps. 19:8).

Christian

Eye

Light

Conscience is called the adversary, because it always opposes our evil will; it reminds us of what we ought to do but do not, and condemns us if we do something we ought not.

Evil

Ifs

Ought

Even if we cannot endure much labor because we are weak let us be set on humbling ourselves.

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Humility

Weak

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Quotes by Dorotheus of Gaza

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‘My sheep hear My voice’ (Jn. 10:14). This is just another way of saying, ‘They obey my words and keep My commandments.’ Obeying the commandments the saints draw near to God; the more they draw near to God, the better they know Him.

A great means to preserve continual peace and tranquillity of soul is to receive everything from the hands of God, both great and small, and in whatever way it comes.

A man obtains the fear of God if he has the remembrance of his unavoidable death and of the eternal torments that await sinners; If he tests himself every evening as to how he has spent the day, and every morning as to how he has spent the night, and if is not sharp in his relations with others.

By keeping the Commandments the soul is purified and the mind too is enlightened, and starts to function as nature intended it to. ‘The command of the Lord gives light and enlightens the eyes’ (Ps. 19:8).

Conscience is called the adversary, because it always opposes our evil will; it reminds us of what we ought to do but do not, and condemns us if we do something we ought not.

Even if we cannot endure much labor because we are weak let us be set on humbling ourselves.

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