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Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

It is better to eat meat and drink wine and not to eat the flesh of one's brethren through slander.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The person who is unaffected by the things of this world loves stillness; and he who loves no human thing loves all men.

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

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

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

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

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