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Quotes

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

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

Repentance is the door of mercy, opened to those who seek it.

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

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Obedience with abstinence gives men control over wild beasts.

It is impossible for the soul to be liberated from turbulent thoughts without the virtue of non-possessiveness. And without peace of the bodily senses it is impossible for the soul to have a peaceful intellect. And if it does not come into temptations it will not acquire wisdom of the Holy Spirit. And without laborious and persistence in reading, it will not come to the discernment of thoughts. And without the stillness of thoughts, the intellect cannot move to seek the hidden mysteries of God.

Affliction, if not accompanied by patience, produces double torment, for a man's patience casts off his distress, while faintness of heart is the mother of anguish. Patience is the mother of consolation and is a certain strength which is usually born of largeness of heart. It is hard for a man to find this strength in his tribulations without a gift from God, received through his ardent pursuit of prayer and the outpouring of his tears.

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.

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

Flee from discussions of dogma as from an unruly lion; and never embark upon them yourself, either with those raised in the Church, or with strangers.

The prayers of those who hold grudges is sowing on stone.

A righteous person who is wise resembles God: he never disciplines anyone in order to take vengeance upon a wrongdoing, but only so that the person may be set aright, or that others may be deterred.

The man who follows Christ in solitary mourning is greater than he who praises Christ amid the congregation of men.

The heart of a man who oversees his soul at all times is made joyous by revelations.

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

Every man that loves God loves a quiet life.

Be despised and rejected in your own eyes, and you will see the glory of God within yourself. For where humility blossoms, there God’s glory bursts forth.

On that day God will not judge us about psalmody, nor for the neglect of prayer, but because by abandoning them, we have opened our door to the demons.

He who does not consciously choose to distance himself from a cause for sin, will be drawn to sin, even against his will.

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