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Archangel Michael Logo

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

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

The person who listens to Christ fills himself with light; and if he imitates Christ, he reclaims himself.

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

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

Long-suffering and readiness to forgive curb anger; love and compassion wither it.

Concern for one's soul means hardship and humility, for through these God forgives us all our sins.

Make the body serve the commandments, keeping it so far as possible free from sickness and sensual pleasure.

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.

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

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

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

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

In Christianity truth is not a philosophical concept nor is it a theory, a teaching, or a system, but rather, it is the living theanthropic hypostasis - the historical Jesus Christ (John 14:6). Before Christ men could only conjecture about the Truth since they did not possess it. With Christ as the incarnate divine Logos the eternally complete divine Truth enters into the world. For this reason the Gospel says: 'Truth came by Jesus Christ' (John 1:17).

A monk is he who wants to sleep and does not sleep, who wants to eat and does not eat, who wants to drink and does not drink. A monk is distinguished by ‘continual forcing of nature.’

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

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

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

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

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