By H.H. Pope Shenouda III 
 
GREATER THAN HEAVEN AND EARTH 
This time I was not walking in the desert or sitting at  the door of the monastery, I was with my father the monk in front of his  cell in the mount to continue our previous talk concerning He who is greater than heaven and earth. 
My  beloved brother, a spirit which desires to be released, knows well its  own worth. It knows how magnificently great it is and how much greater  it is than to be humiliated by the flesh, the environment or by the  devils.