Top 41 Ephrem Quotes
#1. This Lord of natures today was transformed contrary to His nature;
it is not too difficult for us to also overthrow our evil will. Hymns of the Nativity, Hymn 1:97, pg. 74 in Ephrem the Syrian: Hymns (New York: Paulist Press, 1989).
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#2. The decisions that you make each day can actually catapult you to that next level of achievement.
Robert G. Allen
#3. Prayer is converse with God, equal honor with the Angels, progress in good things, averting of evils, righting of sinners.
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#4. Who is far from love is a bad state, and to be pitied. He passes his days in a delirious dream, far from God, deprived of light, and he lives in darkness ... Whoever does not have the love of Christ is an enemy of Christ. He walks in darkness and is easily lead into any sin.
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#5. Blessed the one who has kept the mastery of his eyelids and has not deceived himself with either mind or sense with regard to the skin of the flesh that after a little while oozes putrefaction.
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#6. The seed, swollen with moisture, burst asunder its covering of soil and out peers the blade of wheat, full of symbols. So faith, whose bosom is filled with goodly fruits, is a blade of praise.
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#7. Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress,/And you shall sleep restful nights
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#8. June will break your heart. I can see it already. She'll shatter you into a million pieces.
Marie Lu
#9. Scripture brought me to the Gate of Paradise, and the mind stood in wonder as it entered.
Ephrem The Syrian
#10. When the first just and friendly man appeared on the earth, from that day a fatal Waterloo was visible for all the men of pride and fraud and blood.
Charles Fletcher Dole
#11. In the measure to which a man cuts off and humbles his own will, he proceeds toward success. But insofar as he stubbornly guards his own will, so much does he brings harm to himself.
Ephrem The Syrian
#12. I've always worked out. I've always gone to the gym. But it was always a chore, and it was always, like, 'Man, I've gotta go do this because if I don't I'll get all dumpy and out of shape and then no one will hire me for good roles.'
Michael Cudlitz
#13. From my birth I have aspired like the eagle - but unlike the eagle, my wings have failed ... Congratulate me then that I have found a fitting scope for my powers.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#14. If you wish to help someone, give secretly and avoid arrogance.
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#15. For in this walk, this voyage, it is yourself, the profound history of your 'self,' that now as always you encounter.
Conrad Aiken
#16. The second industrial revolution doesn't present us, as the first did, with overwhelming images of rolling mills or molten steel, but rather with bits of information that flow, as electrical impulses, through circuits. We still have machines made of steel, but they now obey bits that are weightless.
Italo Calvino
#17. Blessed the one who, exalted by love, has become a city founded upon a mountain, from which the enemy, when he saw it, withdrew in fear, trembling at its security in the Lord.
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#18. Anyone who wants to be an example to others, must first examine himself.
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#19. Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character.
Kate Winslet
#20. I can so dearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while abhor the last
Charlotte Bronte
#21. America has had gifted conservative statesmen and national leaders. But with few exceptions, only the liberals have gone down in history as national heroes.
Gunnar Myrdal
#22. Keep puffing on the bubble until it breaks its confining walls and becomes the sea of joy.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#23. In spite of the enormous complexity of macroscopic bodies when viewed from an atomistic viewpoint, one knows from everyday experience as well as from precision experiments that macroscopic bodies obey quite definite laws.
Franz Mandl
#24. Be a lamp in brightness, and make the works of darkness cease, so that whenever your doctrine shines, no one may dare to heed the desires of darkness.
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#25. It is blasphemy if you pray before God while you are full of anger.
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#26. Blessed the one who loves truth continually and has not lent his mouth as an instrument of impiety by lying, for he fears the commandment about idle speech.
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#27. Zombies don't run. They don't dance. They don't say, "More brains." There is no Thriller Night. Those are stereotypes that are perpetrated by Hollywood, which I think is very irresponsible because it can get you killed.
Max Brooks
#28. Whoever fears God stands above all manner of fear. He has become a stranger to all the fear of this world and placed it far from himself, and no manner of trembling comes near him.
Ephrem The Syrian
#29. Not only men, but also women, the weaker sex, in going by the narrow path of Christ have received for themselves the Kingdom of Heaven. For there is neither male nor female, but everyone receives his own reward according to his own labor.
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#30. Don't let your eyes look here and there, and don't look on someone elses' beauty, so that the devil will not conquer you with the help of your eyes.
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#31. Blessed the one who has become a good spiritual net and caught many for the good Lord, such a one will greatly praised by the Lord.
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#32. Like the apple of Thine eye preserve me, O Lord God; defend me and beneath Thy wings shelter me from temptations.
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#33. Blessed the one who continually humbles himself willingly; he will be crowned by the One who willingly humbled himself for our sake.
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#35. O Lord, we cannot go to the pool of Siloe to which you sent the blind man. But we have the chalice of Your Precious Blood, filled with life and light. The purer we are, the more we receive.
Ephrem The Syrian
#36. I just don't like the word 'fun'
it's like Volkswagen, or bell-bottoms, or patchouli-oil or bean-sprouts ... it rubs me up the wrong way.
Tom Waits
#37. If there were only one meaning for the words, the first interpreter would find it, and all other listeners would have neither the toil of seeking nor the pleasure of finding.
Ephrem The Syrian
#39. Virtues are formed by prayer.
Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy.
Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven.
St. Ephrem Of Syria
#40. Blessed the one who meditates on death each day and destroys the base passions lurking in the vines of the heart, for he will be consoled in the moment of separation.
Ephrem The Syrian
#41. Have mercy, O Lord, on my children,
In my children,
Call to mind your childhood,
You who were a child.
Let them that are like your childhood
Be saved by your grace.
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