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Quotes

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

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

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

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

Concern for one's soul means hardship and humility, for through these God forgives us all our sins.

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

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

According to the degree to which the intellect is stripped of the passions, the Holy Spirit initiates the intellect into the mysteries of the age to be.

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

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

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

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

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

The study of divine principles teaches knowledge of God to the person who lives in truth, longing and reverence.

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

A holy man told us one day, that the source of all heresies and schisms in the church was, loving God too little, and ourselves too much.

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

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

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

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