Psalms 40:12-13
For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me. 13. Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me: O Lord, make haste to help me.

Psalms 40:14-15
Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil. 15. Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.

“God’s love for mankind is so great that He never ceases to work for our salvation, even when we turn away from Him.”

+ St Basil the Great

Psalms 40:16 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The Lord be magnified.

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☦️ Saint Paisos of Mt. Athos

“Seek God daily. He will protect you from all evil and guide your steps.”

+ St Nektarios of Aegina

Psalms 40:17
But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.

☦️Abba Macarius

Psalms 41:1-2
Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. 2. The Lord will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.

"Whoever wants to become a Christian must first become a poet. The soul must learn to love everything beautiful."

+ St Porphyrios of Kavsokavilia

Psalms 41:3-4
The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness. 4. I said, Lord, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.

Our pride can make us believe we are the most important and smart people who have a right to be angry. But this is a trap. “Anger enslaves the intellect, and makes you regard your brother with bestial cruelty; it fetters the conscience with uncontrolled impulses of the flesh, and surrenders you for a time to be chastised by the evil spirits to whom you have yielded.” - St Mark The Ascetic

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