2 Timothy 4:1-2

I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; 2. Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

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Ignorance truly is bliss

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Acts 19:10
And this continued by the space of two years; so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.

A brother said to Abba Pimenes, "I am troubled by thoughts that do not let me think of my own sins, but make me notice only the faults of my brother." Abba Pimen told him about Abba Dioscore, that he was crying for himself in his cell; and his disciple lived in another cell. When the disciple came to the elder and found him weeping, he asked him: "Father, what are you weeping about?" He replied, "I am weeping for my sins, child." The disciple said to him, "You have no sins, Father." But the elder answered him, "I assure you, my son, if I could see my sins, four more men would not be enough to join me in weeping." At this, Abba Pimen said, "He is truly a man who has known himself."

(Ancient Patericon)

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St. Gregory Palamas on Islam

St. Gregory Palamas ca. 1296-1359

It is true that Mohammed started from the east and came to the west, as the sun travels from the east unto the west. Nevertheless, he came with war, knives, pillaging, forced enslavement, murders, and acts that are not from the good God, but instigated by the chief manslayer, the devil. Consider now, in times past, did not Alexander (the Great) prove victorious from the east to the west? There have also been many others, in many other times, who set out on military campaigns and dominated the world. Yet none of the peoples believed in their leaders as you revere Mohammed. Though Mohammed may employ violence and offer pleasures, he cannot secure the approval of the world. Albeit, the teaching of Christ, though it turns away from (worldly) pleasures, it has taken hold to the ends of the world, without violence, since it is opposed to it. This phenomenon is the victory that overcomes the world (1 Jn. 5:4).

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“If the Lawgiver Himself fasts, who among those who keep the law has no need of fasting?” -St. Isaac the Syrian

Acts 19:13-15
¶Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth. 14. And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so. 15. And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?”

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