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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.

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

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

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

He who guards his lips preserves his soul; but he who is bold with his lips dishonors himself.

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

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

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

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

Please put this commandment into practice. Cultivate love towards the Person of Christ to such an extent that, when you pronounce His name, tears fall from your eyes. Your heart must really burn. Then He will become your teacher. He will be your Guide, your Brother, your Father, and your Elder.

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

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

According to the degree to which the intellect is stripped of the passions, the Holy Spirit initiates the intellect into the mysteries of the age to be.

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

The greatest weapons of someone striving to lead a life of inward stillness are self-control, love, prayer, and spiritual reading.

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

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.

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

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5025 E. Mill Rd
Broadview Heights, Ohio 44147

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