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Quotes

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

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

Love and self-control purify the soul.

According to the degree to which the intellect is stripped of the passions, the Holy Spirit initiates the intellect into the mysteries of the age to be.

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

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

Spiritual freedom is release from the passions; without Christ’s mercy you cannot attain it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Strive to love every man equally, and you will simultaneously expel all the passions.

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

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