Isaac of Nineveh Quotes

We all suffer. It's part of life. The blessing is - while evil exists, Divinity does, too, and it is stronger.

My faith isn't very churchy, it's a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

When you think about your relationship with Christ, it really just affects every aspect of your life. I think a lot of people try to segment off, like, 'This is church, so this is God, this is my daily life, this is my job,' but I think true faith is when it manifests itself in every single aspect of your life.

Persecutions are inevitable as a Christian. We are not greater than our Master, Jesus Christ, in whose Holy Spirit we gain strength to endure.

While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?

The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I defended myself against him by alleging the trials which Christ endured, and that it was not much for me to suffer something for His sake; besides, He would help me to bear it.

Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars.

Everywhere that a great soul gives utterance to its thoughts, there also is a Golgotha.

I only know that when Jesus is with a person, that one can endure the deepest suffering and somehow emerge a better and stronger Christian because of it.

The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

Faith parries all blows. Faith transforms poison into crystalline water.

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

The more sincere the soul, the heavier the cross endured.

God planted fear in the soul as truly as he planted hope or courage. Pear is a kind of bell, or gong, which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying.

Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.

Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.

The Christian must know that the season, measure, and continuance of his sufferings are appointed by Infinite Wisdom, and designed to work for his everlasting good; and that grace and strength shall be afforded him according to his need.

Where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.

It is a great joy to believe that Jesus has been tempted in all points just as we are.

Life, the river of the Spirit, consenting to anguish and sorrow.