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A collection of scriptural meditations from Saints and Fathers of the Church.

Blessed stillness gives birth to blessed children: self-control, love and pure prayer.

Observe at the same time that the mystery consists in the very office of humility, for Christ says: 'If I, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; how much more ought you to wash one another's feet.' For, since the Author of Salvation Himself redeemed us through His obedience, how much more ought we His servants to offer the service of our humility and obedience.

We are sons of God or of Satan according to whether we conform to goodness or to evil.

Do not neglect the practice of the virtues; if you do, your spiritual knowledge will decrease, and when famine occurs you will go down into Egypt (Genesis 41:57, 46:6).

Struggle until death to fulfill the commandments: purified through them, you will enter into life.

Break the bonds of your friendship for the body and give it only what is absolutely necessary.

If you lay down rules for yourself, do not disobey yourself; for he who cheats himself is self-deluded.

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Obedience with abstinence gives men control over wild beasts.

The study of divine principles teaches knowledge of God to the person who lives in truth, longing and reverence.

The soul's health consists in dispassion and spiritual knowledge; no slave to sensual pleasure can attain it.

May Peter, who wept so efficaciously for himself, weep for us and turn towards us Christ's benignant countenance.

When we turn our spirit from the contemplation of God, we become the slaves of carnal passions.

Self-control and strenuous effort curb desire; stillness and intense longing for God wither it.

Keep the commandments, and you will find peace; love God, and you will attain spiritual knowledge.

The intellect becomes a stranger to the things of this world when its attachment to the senses has been completely sundered.

All sin is due to sensual pleasure, all forgiveness to hardship and distress.

Just as desire and rage multiply our sins, so self-control and humility erase them.

Keep close to Jesus.

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