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Quotes

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

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

Control your stomach, sleep, anger, and tongue, and you will not 'dash your foot against a stone.'

Prayer... by its action it is the reconciliation of man with God, the mother and daughter of tears, a bridge for crossing temptations, a wall of protection from afflictions, a crushing of conflicts, boundless activity, the spring of virtues, the source of spiritual gifts, invisible progress, food of the soul, the enlightening of the mind, an axe for despair, a demonstration of hope, the release from sorrow.

Fear of the Lord conquers desire, and distress that accords with God's will repulses sensual pleasure.

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

Listlessness is an apathy of soul; and a soul becomes apathetic when sick with self-indulgence.

Unless a man keeps the commandments of God, he cannot progress, even in a single virtue.

If you are not willing to repent through freely choosing to suffer, unsought sufferings will providentially be imposed on you.

Concern for one's soul means hardship and humility, for through these God forgives us all our sins.

Everything you do in revenge against a brother who has harmed you will come back to your mind at the time of prayer.

Love and self-control purify the soul.

Patient endurance is the soul's struggle for virtue; where there is struggle for virtue, self-indulgence is banished.

The person who listens to Christ fills himself with light; and if he imitates Christ, he reclaims himself.

The greatest weapons of someone striving to lead a life of inward stillness are self-control, love, prayer, and spiritual reading.

He who fears God will pay careful attention to his soul and will free himself from communion with evil.

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

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

You were commanded to keep the body as a servant, not to be unnaturally enslaved to its pleasures.

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