Resurrection And Renewal

Εἰ ἐκ τοῦ μὴ ὄντός δυνατὸς ὁ θεὸς ὑφιστᾷν ὄσα βούλεται, πόσῳ μᾶλλον έκ τοῦ ὑφεστῶτος άνακαινίσαί τὰ ἤδη γενόμενα, καὶ εἰς γῆν ὑποστρέψαντασώματα; Ὁτε δὲ ἔσται, καὶ πῶς ἔσται ἀνάστασις, καὶ τὸ μυστήριον τῶν σπειρομένων διδάξει σε, καὶ πάντων τῶν φυτῶν ἡ κίνησις, χειμῶνι τελευτώντων, καὶ ἔαρι ἀναζώντων. Ἅγιος Ἰσίδωρος Του Πηλουσιώτου, Βιβλιον Πρῶτον, Ἐπιστολή ΣΠΔ', Συναδιῳ Source: Migne PG 78.349b

If God can bring from nothing what He will, how much more will He be able to renew bodies that having existed at some time have then passed away into the earth? What will be, and how the resurrection will be, the mystery of sowing shall teach you, the motion of everything grown perishing in winter, and in spring returning to life. Saint Isidore of Pelusium, Book 1, Letter 284, To Synadius

Grief over the Times

Μὴ σφόδρα δάκνου τοῖς λυπηροῖς. Ἂ γὰρ ἂν ἥττον λυπώπεθα ἥττόν ἐστι λυπηρά. Οὐδὲν δεινὸν εἰ ανεθλφθησαν οἱ αἰρετικοὶ, καὶ τῷ ἔαρι θαῥῥοῦσι τῶν φωλεῶν ἐξερπύσαντες, ὡς αὐτὸς γράφεις. Μικρὰ συριοῦσιν, εὔ οἴδα, εἴτα καταδὐσοντι, καὶ τῇ ἀληθείᾳ, καὶ τῷ καιρῷ πολεμούμενοι· καὶ τόσῳ μᾶλλον, ὅσῳπερ ἂν τῷ Θεῷ τὸ πᾶν ἐπιτρέπωεν. Ἅγιος Γρηγόριος ὁ Ναζιανζηνός, Ἐπιστολή ΟΒ', Γρηγοριῳ Νυσσης

Do not let troubles turn you to excessive grief. For the less we grieve over things the less grievous they are. It is not strange that the heretics have thawed and encouraged by the spring are creeping out of their holes, as you write. They will hiss for a short time, I know, and then will hide away, overcome both by the truth and the times, and all the more so the more we entrust the whole matter to God. Saint Gregory Nazianzus, Letter 72, to To Gregory of Nyssa