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Archangel Michael Logo

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

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

Even if all spiritual fathers, patriarchs, hierarchs, and all the people forgive you, you are unforgiven if you don’t repent in action.

You should not make long prayer, for it is better to pray little but often. Superfluous words are idle talk.

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

Patient endurance is the soul's struggle for virtue; where there is struggle for virtue, self-indulgence is banished.

Be glad and rejoice that you were granted to be pious Orthodox Christians. Likewise again cry and mourn for the impious and unbelievers who walk in darkness, in the hands of the devil.

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

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

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

Even if all spiritual fathers, patriarchs, hierarchs, and all the people forgive you, you are unforgiven if you don't repent in action.

Acts of kindness and generosity are spoilt by self-esteem, meanness and pleasure, unless these have first been destroyed by fear of God.

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

Control your stomach, sleep, anger, and tongue, and you will not 'dash your foot against a stone.'

In Christianity truth is not a philosophical concept nor is it a theory, a teaching, or a system, but rather, it is the living theanthropic hypostasis - the historical Jesus Christ (John 14:6). Before Christ men could only conjecture about the Truth since they did not possess it. With Christ as the incarnate divine Logos the eternally complete divine Truth enters into the world. For this reason the Gospel says: 'Truth came by Jesus Christ' (John 1:17).

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.

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

When you see someone suffering great dishonor, you may be sure that he was carried away by thoughts of self-esteem and is now reaping, much to his disgust, the harvest from the seeds which he sowed in his heart.

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