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Quotes

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

When someone is free, he has rights and obligations. When he gets married, he has few rights and very many obligations. When, however, he obtains children also, he has no rights, but only obligations.

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

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

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

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

Love and self-control purify the soul.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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