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Ephrem the Syrian

Ephrem the Syrian (Classical Syriac: ܡܪܝ ܐܦܪܝܡ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ‎ Mār Aprêm Sûryāyâ; Greek: Ἐφραίμ ὁ Σῦρος; Latin: Ephraem Syrus, also known as St. Ephraem (Ephrem, Ephraim); c. 306 – 373) was a Syriac Christian deacon and a prolific Syriac-language hymnographer and theologian of the 4th century. He is especially beloved in the Syriac Orthodox Church, and counted as a Venerable Father (i.e., a sainted Monk) in Eastern Orthodoxy. His feast day is celebrated on 28 January and on the Saturday of the Venerable Fathers. He was declared a Doctor of the Church in the Catholic Church in 1920.

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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.

Blessed, Caught, Greatly, Lord, Spiritual

Prayer is converse with God, equal honor with the Angels, progress in good things, averting of evils, righting of sinners.

Angel, Equal, Evil, Prayer, Progress, Sinners

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.

Christian, Cuts, Inspirational, Proceeds, Religious, Toward

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.

Become, Blessed, Cities, Enemy, Mountain, Trembling

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.

Blessed, Continually, Lying, Mouths, Speech

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.

Asunder, Covering, Faith, Full, Moisture, Peers

The fear of God illumines the soul, annihilates evil, weakens the passions, drives darkness from the soul and makes it pure. The fear of God is the summit of wisdom. Where it is not you will find nothing good. Whoever does not have the fear of God is open to diabolical falls.

Annihilates, Christian, Darkness, Drives, Inspirational, Religious

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.

According, Christian, Female, Inspirational, Received, Religious

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.

Blessed, Heart, Lurking, Passion, Passions

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.

Christian, Fears, God, Inspirational, Religious, World

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.

Draws, Emotions, Men, Prayer, Preserves, Pride

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.

Blessed, Mastery, Mind, Putrefaction, Skins

No one is truly poor but except the one who lacks the truth.

Catholic, Poor, Except, Lacks, Truth

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.

Inspirational, Christian, Religious, Let, Devil, Elses

If you wish to help someone, give secretly and avoid arrogance.

Arrogance, Avoid, Give, Giving, Secretly, Wish

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.

Christian, Deprived, Dream, Inspirational, Walks

Yea, O Lord and King, grant me to see my own sin and not to judge my brother, for You are blessed from all ages to all ages. Amen

Ages, Blessed, Brother, Judge, Kings, Sin

O Lord and Master of my life, take from me the spirit of sloth, meddling, lust of power, and idle talk. But give rather the spirit of chastity, humility, patience and love to Thy servant. Yea, O Lord and King, grant me to see my own sins and not to judge my brother; for Thou art blessed unto ages of ages. Amen.

Art, Brother, Kings, Sloth, Talk, Yea

Scripture brought me to the Gate of Paradise, and the mind stood in wonder as it entered.

Mind, Paradise, Scripture, Brought, Wonder

It is blasphemy if you pray before God while you are full of anger.

Blasphemy, God, Pray, Praying, Saint

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