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Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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A dog is better than I am, for he has love and he does not judge.

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

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Obedience with abstinence gives men control over wild beasts.

Struggle until death to fulfill the commandments: purified through them, you will enter into life.

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

Love and self-control purify the soul.

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

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

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

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

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

It is an insult to the intelligence to be subject to what lacks intelligence and to concern itself with shameful desires.

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