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Quotes

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

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

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Obedience with abstinence gives men control over wild beasts.

All sin is due to sensual pleasure, all forgiveness to hardship and distress.

If you are not willing to repent through freely choosing to suffer, unsought sufferings will providentially be imposed on you.

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

Concern for one's soul means hardship and humility, for through these God forgives us all our sins.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The soul's health consists in dispassion and spiritual knowledge; no slave to sensual pleasure can attain it.

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

Love and self-control purify the soul.

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).

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