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

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

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.

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

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

Worldly virtues promote human glory, spiritual virtues the glory of God.

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

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

Love and self-control purify the soul.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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