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Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Worldly virtues promote human glory, spiritual virtues the glory of God.

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

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

We are sons of God or of Satan according to whether we conform to goodness or to evil.

An elderly monk said, 'Always, when you are tempted to criticize, you should put a question mark on the whole situation and not judge. For we do not know what is really going on.'

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

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

If you lay down rules for yourself, do not disobey yourself; for he who cheats himself is self-deluded.

An Athonite elder said, 'Blasphemous thoughts are like airplanes that annoy us, against our will, with their noise, and we are powerless to prevent them. The heavy anti-aircraft battery is psalmody, because it is both prayer to Christ and disdain for the devil.'

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

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

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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