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Archangel Michael Logo

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

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

Mind is not soul, but a gift from God which saves the soul. A mind pleasing to God flows ahead of the soul and counsels it to scorn the temporal, material and corruptible, and to love blessings that are eternal, incorruptible and immaterial, so that, while living in the body, man should, with his mind, apprehend and contemplate the heavenly and the divine. In this way a God-loving mind is a benefactor and savior of the human soul.

Make the body serve the commandments, keeping it so far as possible free from sickness and sensual pleasure.

If you abandon God and are a slave to the passions, you cannot reap God's mercy.

Do good to one who wrongs you, and God will be your friend.

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

To those who would fain stand, neither the guardianship of saints nor the defences of angels are wanting.

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

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

My children, desire to purify your hearts from envy and from anger with each other, lest death should overcome you, and you will be counted among the murderers. For whosoever hates his brother, kills a soul.

The time is coming when people will be insane, and when they see someone who is not insane, they will attack him saying 'You are insane because you are not like us.'

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

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

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

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A dog is better than I am, for he has love and he does not judge.

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

Strive with all your might to bring your interior activity into accord with God, and you will overcome exterior passions.

Never prefer gain for yourself over that which is beneficial for your brother.

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