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Quotes

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

Love and self-control purify the soul.

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

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

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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ignorance of the scriptures is a precipice and a deep abyss.

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

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Obedience with abstinence gives men control over wild beasts.

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