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Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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

A wise man is one who pays attention to himself and is quick to separate himself from all defilement.

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

Struggle until death to fulfill the commandments: purified through them, you will enter into life.

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

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

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

Break the bonds of your friendship for the body and give it only what is absolutely necessary.

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

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

Love and self-control purify the soul.

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

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

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