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Quotes

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

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

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

Self-love -- that is, friendship for the body -- is the source of evil in the soul.

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

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

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

If the soul is vigilant and withdraws from all distraction and abandons its own will, then the spirit of God invades it and it can conceive because it is free to do so.

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

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

Whenever we enter the church and draw near to the heavenly mysteries, we ought to approach with all humility and fear, both because of the presence of the angelic powers and out of the reverence due to the sacred oblation; for as the Angels are said to have stood by the Lord's body when it lay in the tomb, so we must believe that they are present in the celebration of the Mysteries of His most sacred Body at the time of consecration.

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.'

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

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).

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

Love and self-control purify the soul.

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

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

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