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Quotes

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

Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing.

The lover of silence draws close to God. He talks to Him in secret and God enlightens him.

I wish I could persuade spiritual persons that the way of perfection does not consist in many devices, nor in much cogitation, but in denying themselves completely and yielding themselves to suffer everything for the love of Christ. And if there is failure in this exercise, all other methods of walking in the spiritual way are merely a beating about the bush, and profitless trifling, although a person should have very high contemplation and communication with God.

Do not go into detail in confessing carnal acts, lest you become a traitor to yourself.

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

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 servant of the Lord is he who in body stands before men, but in mind knocks at Heaven with prayer.

If it is a mark of extreme meekness, even in the presence of one’s offender, to be peacefully and lovingly disposed towards him in one’s heart, then it is certainly a mark of hot temper when a person continues to quarrel and rage against his offender, both by words and gestures, even when by himself.

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...

Do not allow human respect to get in your way when you hear someone slandering his neighbor. Instead, say to him, 'Brother, stop it! I do worse things every day, so how can I criticize him?' You accomplish two things when you say this. You heal yourself and you heal your neighbor with one bandage.

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.

Be concentrated without self-display, withdrawn into your heart. For the demons fear concentration as thieves fear dogs.

No one in the face of blasphemous thoughts need think that the guilt lies within him, for the Lord is the Knower of hearts, and He is aware that such words and thoughts do not come from us but from our foes.

As with the appearance of light, darkness retreats; so, at the fragrance of humility, all anger and bitterness vanishes.

Patience is an unbroken labor of the soul which is never shaken by deserved or undeserved blows.

Love and humility form a holy pair; what the first builds, the second binds, thus preventing the building from falling asunder.

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

Control your appetites before they control you.

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