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

As a man cannot remain unscathed who spares his enemy on the field of battle, so a man engaged in spiritual warfare cannot save his soul if he spares his body.

Understand what I say: there can be no knowledge of the mysteries of God on a full stomach.

Blessed are those who, from love of God, have girded their loins with unquestioning simplicity for this sea of suffering, and who do not turn back.

Until we find love, our labor is in the land of tares, and in the midst of tares we both sow and reap, even if our seed is the seed of righteousness.

Joyfully accept bitter trials, that they may violently shake you for a brief moment, and that afterward you may be sweetened.

Virtues are connected with suffering. He who flees suffering is sure to be parted from virtue.

It is a spiritual gift from God for a man to perceive his sins.

Continual study in the writings of the saints fills the soul with incomprehensible wonder and divine gladness.

Do not disdain those who are handicapped from birth, because all of us will go to the grave equally privileged.

The prayer of one who does not consider himself sinful is not well-pleasing to God.

'When ye suffer for righteousness’ sake, blessed are ye, seeing that ye are become partakers of the sufferings of Christ' (1 Peter 3:14; 4:13). Therefore, when you are unoppressed do not rejoice; and when tribulations come upon you, do not be sullen, accounting them as foreign to God’s way. For His path has been trodden from the ages and from all generations by the cross and by death. But how is it with you, that the afflictions on the path seem to you to be off the path? Do you not wish to follow the steps of the saints? Or have you plans for devising some way of your own, and of journeying therein without suffering?

Fasting is the champion of every virtue, the beginning of the struggle, the crown of the abstinent, the beauty of virginity and sanctity, the resplendence of chastity, the commencement of the path of Christianity, the mother of prayer, the well-spring of sobriety and prudence, the teacher of stillness, and the precursor of all good works. Just as the enjoyment of light is coupled with healthy eyes, so desire for prayer accompanies fasting that is practiced with discernment.

Beware of reading the doctrines of heretics for they, more than anything else, can equip the spirit of blasphemy against you.

This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits.

To bear a grudge and pray, means to sow seed on the sea and expect a harvest.

Virtue is not accounted virtue if it is not accompanied by difficulty and labors.

Love the poor, and through them you will find mercy.

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.

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