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Quotes

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

As long as the flesh is in full health, let us observe abstinence at all times and in every place. When it has been tamed (which I do not suppose is possible this side of the grave), then let us hide our accomplishment.

Our good Redeemer, by speedily granting what is asked, draws to His love those who are grateful. But He keeps ungrateful souls praying a long time before Him, hungering and thirsting for what they want, since a badly trained dog rushes off as soon as it is given bread and leaves the giver behind.

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

He who has obtained the fear of the Lord has forsaken lying, having within himself an incorruptible judge – his own conscience.

Do not be surprised that you fall every day; do not give up, but stand your around courageously. And assuredly the angel who guards you will honor your patience, while a wound is still fresh and warm it is easy to heal, but old, neglected and festering ones are hard to cure, and require for their care much treatment, cutting, plastering and cauterization. Many from long neglect become incurable. But with God all things are possible...

The angels know how to speak about love, and even they can only do this according to the degree of their enlightenment.

If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection.

Let no one on seeing or hearing something supernatural in the monastic way of life fall into unbelief out of ignorance; for where the supernatural God dwells, much that is supernatural happens.

He who really keeps account of his actions considers as lost every day in which he does not mourn, whatever good he may have done in it.

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

As galloping horses race one another, so a good community excites mutual fervor.

The beginning of the mortification both of the soul’s desire and of the bodily members is much hard work. The middle is sometimes laborious and sometimes not laborious. But the end is insensibility and insusceptibility to toil and pain. Only when he sees himself doing his own will does this blessed living corpse feel sorry and sick at heart; and he fears the responsibility of using his own judgment.

Meekness is a rock overlooking the sea of anger, which breaks all the waves that dash against it, yet remains completely unmoved.

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

As writing is washed out by water, so sins can be washed out by tears.

Fear is a rehearsing of danger beforehand; or again, fear is a trembling sensation of the heart, alarmed and troubled by unknown misfortunes. Fear is a loss of assurance.

A sign of deliverance from our falls is the continual reckoning of ourselves as debtors.

In the hearts of the meek the Lord finds rest, but a turbulent soul is a seat of the devil.

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