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Quotes

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

Why do you increase your bonds? Take hold of your life before your light grows dark and you seek help and do not find it. This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits.

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.

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

The man who is conscious of his sins is greater than he who profits the whole world by the sight of his countenance.

Except for unceasing prayer we cannot draw near to God.

Humility, even without works, can save a man.

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

Every man that loves God loves a quiet life.

Ease and idleness are the destruction of the soul and they can injure her more than the demons.

Lips that utter frequent thanksgivings shall be blessed by God, and the grateful heart is visited by grace.

It is just as shameful for lovers of the flesh and the belly to search out spiritual things as it is for a harlot to discourse on chastity. A body suffering grave illness shuns fatty foods and abhors them; and likewise, a mind occupied with worldly affairs cannot approach the inquiry into things of God. A fire cannot be ignited with wet wood, nor can the divine fervor be kindled in a heart that loves ease.

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

Before the war begins, seek out your ally; before you fall ill, seek out your physician; and before grievous things come upon you, pray, and in the time of your tribulations you will find Him, and He will listen to you.

As it is not possible to cross over the great ocean without a ship, so no one can attain to love without fear. This filthy sea, which lies between us and the paradise of the heart, we may cross by the boat of repentance, whose oarsmen are those of fear. But if fear's oarsmen do not pilot the boat of repentance whereby we cross over the sea of this world to God, we shall be drowned in the sordid abyss.

Love of God proceeds from conversing with him; this conversation of prayer comes about through stillness, and stillness comes with the stripping away of the self.

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.

Sweet to the laborer is bread earned by his own sweat. Until a man has sweated, the bread of truth will not satisfy him.

Love sinners, but hate their works; and do not despise them for their faults, lest you be tempted by the same trespasses.

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