Nikolaj Velimirovic quotes
Bless my enemies, O Lord. And I bless them and do not curse them. My enemies have driven me into Your arms more than my friends have. My friends have bound me to the earth; My enemies have loosened my bonds from the earth and have torn up all my hopes in the earth. They have turned me into a stranger in the kingdoms of this earth and into a superfluous inhabitant of this earth. Like an animal that finds a safer shelter when hunted down rather than when not, so have I, hunted down by my enemies, found the safest shelter by hiding under Thy tent where neither friend nor foe can slay my soul. Bless my enemies, O Lord. And I bless them and do not curse them. They, instead of me, have confessed my sins before the world.
Nikolaj Velimirovic
That God may forgive us, let us forgive men. We are all on this earth as temporary guests. Prolonged fasting and prayer is in vain Without forgiveness and true mercy. God is the true Physician; sins are leprosy. Whomever God cleanses, God also glorifies. Every merciful act of men, God rewards with mercy. He who returns sin with sin perishes without mercy. Pus is not cleansed by pus from infected wounds, Neither is the darkness of the dungeon dispelled by darkness, But pure balm heals the festering wound, And light disperses the darkness of the dungeon. To the seriously wounded, mercy is like a balm; As if seeing a torch dispersing the darkness, everyone rejoices in mercy. The madman says, "I have no need of mercy!” But when he is overcome by misery, he cries out for mercy! Men bathe in the mercy of God, And that mercy of God wakens us to life! That God may forgive us, let us forgive men, We are all on this earth as temporary guests.
Nikolaj Velimirovic
No vice or passion appears under its real name. Fornication goes by the name of love, covetousness calls itself prosperity, gambling by fun, drunkenness and partying, by friendship, envy by justice and equality. In fact, often behind the rebellion against injustice and inequality is ordinary envy!
Nikolaj Velimirovic
What does it mean to take up your cross? It means the willing acceptance, at the hand of Providence, of every means of healing, bitter though it may be, that is offered. Do great catastrophes fall on you? Be obedient to God's will, as Noah was. Is sacrifice demanded of you? Give yourself into God's hands with the same faith as Abram had when he went to sacrifice his son. Is your property ruined? Do your children die suddenly? Suffer it all with patience, cleaving to God in your heart, as Job did. Do your friends forsake you, and you find yourself surrounded by enemies? Bear it all without grumbling, and with faith that God's help is at hand, as the apostles did.
Nikolaj Velimirovic
When you lie, you lie to God; when you steal, you steal from God; when you have hatred for someone, you have hatred for God; when you don't honor your parents, you don't honor God; when you are jealous, you are jealous of God; when you begrudge alms to the poor, you begrudge recompense to God; when you plot evil, you plot it against God; when you work evil, you work evil against God.
Nikolaj Velimirovic
It was necessary to let evil compete as much as it could, so that, later, it should break and fade away. It was necessary to let evil cry out as loudly as it could, so that it should later be rendered dumb before the wonder of the Resurrection. It was necessary that all human wickedness against God should be revealed, that the love and mercy of God towards man should be seen and valued. The angels who were not sent to defend Christ from the Jews were sent three days later to reveal His holy Resurrection.
Nikolaj Velimirovic
Nikolaj Velimirovic
Occupation: Serbian Bishop
Born: December 23, 1880
Died: March 18, 1956
Quotes count: 60
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