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Quotes

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

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).

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

Self-love -- that is, friendship for the body -- is the source of evil in the soul.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

If, wishing to correct another, you are moved to anger, you gratify your own passion. Do not lose yourself in order to save another.

A wise man is one who pays attention to himself and is quick to separate himself from all defilement.

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

Love and self-control purify the soul.

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

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

The person who is unaffected by the things of this world loves stillness; and he who loves no human thing loves all men.

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.

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