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Quotes

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

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

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

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

Spiritual reading and prayer purify the intellect, while love and self-control purify the soul's passionate aspect.

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

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

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

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

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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Guard yourselves from soul-destroying heresy, communion with which is alienation from Christ.

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

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