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Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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Obedience with abstinence gives men control over wild beasts.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love and self-control purify the soul.

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.

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

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

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

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