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

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

The Christian needs two wings in order to soar upward and attain Paradise: humility and love.

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

Long-suffering and readiness to forgive curb anger; love and compassion wither it.

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

O monk, take thou the greatest possible care that thou sin not, lest thou disgrace God Who dwelleth in thee, and thou drive Him out of thy soul.

He who chooses maltreatment and dishonor for the sake of truth is walking on the apostolic path; he has taken up the cross and is bound in chains (cf. Mt 16:24). But when he tries to concentrate his attention on the heart without accepting these two, his intellect wanders from the path and he falls into the temptations and snares of the devil.

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

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

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

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

The mission of the Church is to bring about in her members the conviction that the proper state of human personhood is composed of immortality and eternity and not of the realm of time and mortality... and the conviction that man is a wayfarer who is wending his way in the sway of time and mortality towards immortality and all eternity.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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