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Into the Ocean

November 27, 2010quotessins, St. Isaac the SyrianGretchenJoanna

“As a handful of sand thrown into the ocean, so are the sins of all flesh as compared with the mind of God.”

–St. Isaac The Syrian

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Jodie Anna says:

November 27, 2010 at 8:07 pm

beautiful…I have to repost this 🙂

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wayside wanderer says:

November 28, 2010 at 1:06 am

Very comforting quote. Thank you for sharing it.

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I am Gretchen Joanna, an Orthodox Christian widow; mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, living in Northern California.

“It is more important that we should remember God than that we should breathe: indeed, if one may say so, we should do nothing else besides.” -St Gregory of Nazianzus

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Psalms quoted are from The Psalter, translated from the Greek Septuagint by the Holy Transfiguration Monastery, Boston, Massachusetts, 2007. The numbering of the Psalms in the Septuagint differs from that found in Psalters and Bibles translated from the Hebrew.

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