Isaac of Nineveh
Quotes by Isaac of Nineveh
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If God is slow in answering your request, or if you ask but do not promptly receive anything, do not be upset, for you are not wiser than God.
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Wishing to open my mouth, O brethren, and speak on the exalted theme of humility, I am filled with fear, even as a man who understands that he is about to discourse concerning God with the art of his own words. For humility is the raiment of the Godhead.
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If zeal had been appropriate for putting humanity right, why did God the Word clothe himself in the body, using gentleness and humility in order to bring the world back to his Father?
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