Shelf by Conor Dukes

cdukes2025 — 2024-03-04 17:20:49 UTC

“There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.”

cdukes2025 — 2024-03-04 17:21:17 UTC

“Mercy is called by that name for this reason, that it gives even to the unworthy.”

cdukes2025 — 2024-03-04 17:22:03 UTC

“You cannot put straight in others what is warped in yourself.”

cdukes2025 — 2024-03-04 17:22:26 UTC

“No act of virtue can be great if it is not followed by advantage for others. So, no matter how much time you spend fasting, no matter how much you sleep on a hard floor and eat ashes and sigh continually, if you do no good to others, you do nothing great.”

cdukes2025 — 2024-03-04 17:22:48 UTC

“The Holy Scriptures were not given to us that we should enclose them in books, but that we should engrave them upon our hearts.”

cdukes2025 — 2024-03-04 17:23:05 UTC

“But first I want you to tell me this: do you know the power of love? Christ passed over all the marvelous works which were to be performed by the apostles and said, "By this shall men know that ye are my disciples, if ye love one another.”

cdukes2025 — 2024-03-04 17:23:25 UTC

“For Christians above all men are forbidden to correct the stumblings of sinners by force.”

cdukes2025 — 2024-03-04 17:24:14 UTC

“This is why God has allowed you to have more: not for you to waste on prostitutes, drink, fancy food, expensive clothes, and all other kinds of indolence, but for you to distribute to those in need.”

cdukes2025 — 2024-03-04 17:24:33 UTC

“Themercifulmanisasaharbourtothosewhoareinneed;andtheharbourreceivesallwhoareescapingshipwreck, and frees them from danger, whether they be evil or good; whatsoever kind of men they be that are in peril, it receives them into its shelter. You also, when you see a man su ering shipwreck on land through poverty, do not sit in judgment on him, nor require explanations, but relieve his distress.”

cdukes2025 — 2024-03-04 17:24:55 UTC

“Evil, then consists essentially in the choice of what is lower in preference to what is higher.”

cdukes2025 — 2024-03-04 17:25:28 UTC

“God became man so that man might become God.”

cdukes2025 — 2024-03-04 17:25:45 UTC

“A monk is a man who considers himself one with all men because he seems constantly to see himself in every man. ”

cdukes2025 — 2024-03-04 17:26:19 UTC

The abbot Pastor said, “If a man has sinned and denies it not, but says ‘I have sinned,’ scold him not, for you will break the purpose of his heart. But rather say to him, ‘Do not be sad, my brother, but watch yourself hereafter,’ and you will rouse his heart to repentance.”

cdukes2025 — 2024-03-04 17:26:32 UTC

He also said, “The one who makes a show of his good works and publicizes them is like the one who threw seeds on the ground, ‘and the fowls of the air came and devoured them up’ [Matt 13:4]. But the one who conceals his way of life is as one who sows in a furrow in the ground and who will reap an abundant harvest.

cdukes2025 — 2024-03-04 17:27:29 UTC

“The nearer a man approaches to God, the greater sinner he sees himself to be. For the prophet Isaiah saw God, and said that he was unclean and undone.”

cdukes2025 — 2024-03-04 17:27:48 UTC

“In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.”

cdukes2025 — 2024-03-04 17:28:04 UTC

“The answer is this. The Lord did not come to make a display. He came to heal and to teach su ering men. For one who wanted to make a display the thing would have been just to appear and dazzle the beholders. But for Him Who came to heal and to teach the way was not merely to dwell here, but to put Himself at the disposal of those who needed Him, and to be manifested according as they could bear it, not vitiating the value of the Divine appearing by exceeding their capacity to receive it.

cdukes2025 — 2024-03-04 17:28:58 UTC

“There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.”

Why?

cdukes2025 — 2024-03-04 17:29:16 UTC

It speaks the truth, also i live by this quote.

Insight

cdukes2025 — 2024-03-04 17:30:06 UTC

These quotes show Jesus’s love. Love can be spread without jesus too. All these quotes feel connected through Jesus’s love.

Insight

cdukes2025 — 2024-03-04 17:30:18 UTC

These intimidate me. These quotes help me see the true power of jesus. They also help me steer towards a right path.

Insight

cdukes2025 — 2024-03-04 17:30:38 UTC

These all show how if you treat someone right they get rewarded. It also gives examples. It also focus’s on us as a whole.

Insight

cdukes2025 — 2024-03-05 17:14:48 UTC

These give us life lessons in one whole quote. These lessons are very special. And everyone can live by them.