If you are an ardent reader, seek not brilliant and erudite texts; otherwise the demon of haughtiness will strike your heart. But… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
It is blasphemy if you pray before God while you are full of anger. — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
The seed, swollen with moisture, burst asunder its covering of soil and out peers the blade of wheat, full of symbols. So faith, whose… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
Blessed the one who has become a good spiritual net and caught many for the good Lord, such a one will greatly praised by… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
O Lord and Master of my life, take from me the spirit of sloth, meddling, lust of power, and idle talk. But give rather… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
If you are an ardent reader, seek not brilliant and erudite texts; otherwise the demon of haughtiness will strike your heart. But like a… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
Like the apple of Thine eye preserve me, O Lord God; defend me and beneath Thy wings shelter me from temptations. — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
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… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
It is blasphemy if you pray before God while you are full of anger. — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
Prayer is converse with God, equal honor with the Angels, progress in good things, averting of evils, righting of sinners. — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
Be a lamp in brightness, and make the works of darkness cease, so that whenever your doctrine shines, no one may dare to heed… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
O Lord, we cannot go to the pool of Siloe to which you sent the blind man. But we have the chalice of Your… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
Who is far from love is a bad state, and to be pitied. He passes his days in a delirious dream, far from God,… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
