Ephrem the Syrian Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Faith, Covering, Peers

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• 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.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Lying, Blessed, Mouths

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• 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.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Blessed, Mind, Skins

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• 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.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Blessed, Cities, Enemy

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• They went down to Egypt and provided food when famine reigned; they came to the obstinate sea, and taught it wisdom with a rod; they went out into the hostile desert and adorned it with a pillar; they entered the furnace, fiercely heated, and sprinkled it with their dew; into the pit where they had been thrown an angel entered and taught its wild beasts to fast.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Christian, Angel, Egypt

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• 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.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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