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Quotes

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

The person who is unaffected by the things of this world loves stillness; and he who loves no human thing loves all men.

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Obedience with abstinence gives men control over wild beasts.

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

Love and self-control purify the soul.

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

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

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

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

Abba Or used to say this, 'Do not speak in your heart against your brother like this: 'I am a man of more sober and austere life than he is,' but put yourself in subjection to the grace of Christ, in the spirit of poverty and genuine charity, or you will be overcome by the spirit of vainglory and lose all you have gained. For it is written in the Scriptures: 'Let him who stands take heed lest he fall.' (I Corinthians 10:12) Let your salvation be founded in the Lord.'

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.

Keep the commandments, and you will find peace; love God, and you will attain spiritual knowledge.

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).

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

Just as desire and rage multiply our sins, so self-control and humility erase them.

Just as desire and rage multiply our sins, so self-control and humility erase them.

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

Spiritual reading and prayer purify the intellect, while love and self-control purify the soul's passionate aspect.

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

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