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

A vigilant eye makes the mind pure; but much sleep hardens the soul.

If you possess the gift of mourning, hold on to it with all your might. For it is easily lost when it is not firmly established. And just as wax melts in the presence of fire, so it is easily dissolved by noise and bodily cares, and by luxury, and especially by talkativeness and levity.

Most of us call ourselves sinners, and perhaps really think it; but it is indignity that tests the heart.

A man who has embraced poverty offers up prayer that is pure, while a man who loves possessions prays to material images.

The lover of silence draws close to God. He talks to Him in secret and God enlightens him.

Lying is wiped out by the tortures of superiors; but it is finally destroyed by an abundance of tears.

Obedience is to give up one's own judgment but to do it with wise consultation.

It seems to me that, in all cases when indignity is offered to us, we should be silent; for it is our moment of profit.

Wrath is a reminder of hidden hatred, that is to say, remembrance of wrongs. Wrath is a desire for the injury of the one who has provoked you. Irascibility is the untimely blazing up of the heart. Bitterness is a movement of displeasure seated in the soul. Anger is an easily changeable movement of one’s disposition and disfiguration of soul.

Do not go into detail in confessing carnal acts, lest you become a traitor to yourself.

Do not trust that because of abstinence you will not fall. One who had never eaten was cast from Heaven.

He who has become aware of his sins has controlled his tongue, but a talkative person has not yet come to know himself as he should.

It seems to me that, in all cases when indignity is offered to us, we should be silent; for it is our moment of profit.

Repentance raises the fallen, mourning knocks at the gate of Heaven, and holy humility opens it.

If you feel sweetness or compunction at some word of your prayer, dwell on it; for then our guardian angel is praying with us.

When someone is free, he has rights and obligations. When he gets married, he has few rights and very many obligations. When, however, he obtains children also, he has no rights, but only obligations.

The demons, murderers as they are, push us into sin. Or if they fail to do this, they get us to pass judgment on those who are sinning, so that they may defile us with the stain which we ourselves are condemning in another.

A little fire softens a large piece of wax. So, too, a small indignity often softens, sweetens and wipes away suddenly all the fierceness, insensibility & hardness of our heart.

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