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

It is not safe to swim in one's clothes, nor should a slave of passion touch theology.

If you feel sweetness or compunction at some word of your prayer, dwell on it; for then our guardian angel is praying with us.

Sleep is a particular state of nature, an image of death, inactivity of the senses. Sleep is one, but, like desire, its sources and occasions are many; that is to say, it comes from nature, from food, from demons, or perhaps, sometimes, from extreme and prolonged fasting, through which the flesh is weakened and at last longs for the consolation of sleep.

No one in the face of blasphemous thoughts need think that the guilt lies within him, for the Lord is the Knower of hearts, and He is aware that such words and thoughts do not come from us but from our foes.

Where a fall has overtaken us, there pride has already pitched its tent; because a fall is an indication of pride.

Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing.

If you have promised Christ to go by the strait and narrow way, restrain your stomach, because by pleasing it and enlarging it, you break your contract. Attend and you will hear Him who says: 'Spacious and broad is the way of the belly that leads to the perdition of fornication, and many there are who go in by it; because narrow is the gate and strait is the way of fasting that leads to the life of purity, and few there be that find it.'

Meekness consists in praying calmly and sincerely for a neighbor when he causes many turmoils.

As galloping horses race one another, so a good community excites mutual fervor.

A vigilant eye makes the mind pure; but much sleep hardens the soul.

Repentance raises the fallen, mourning knocks at the gate of Heaven, and holy humility opens it.

Do not be surprised that you fall every day; do not give up, but stand your ground courageously. And assuredly, the angel who guards you will honor your patience.

The beginning of the mortification both of the soul’s desire and of the bodily members is much hard work. The middle is sometimes laborious and sometimes not laborious. But the end is insensibility and insusceptibility to toil and pain. Only when he sees himself doing his own will does this blessed living corpse feel sorry and sick at heart; and he fears the responsibility of using his own judgment.

It seems to me that, in all cases when indignity is offered to us, we should be silent; for it is our moment of profit.

A sign of deliverance from our falls is the continual reckoning of ourselves as debtors.

Angels are a light for monks, and the monastic life is a light for all men. Therefore let monks strive to become a good example in everything, giving no occasion for stumbling in anything (II Corinthians 6:3) in all their works and words. For if the light becomes darkness, how much darker will be that darkness, that is, those living in the world.

It is a great work to shake from the soul the praise of men, but to reject the praise of demons is greater.

Let us monks, then, be as trustful as the birds are; for they have no cares, neither do they gather into barns.

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