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Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

Love and self-control purify the soul.

If you abandon God and are a slave to the passions, you cannot reap God's mercy.

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

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

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

Spiritual reading and prayer purify the intellect, while love and self-control purify the soul's passionate aspect.

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

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

Imitate the Publican and you will not be condemned with the Pharisee. Choose the meekness of Moses and you will find your heart which is a rock changed into a spring of water.

Control your stomach, sleep, anger, and tongue, and you will not 'dash your foot against a stone.'

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

All sin is due to sensual pleasure, all forgiveness to hardship and distress.

I think that for those living in community obedience is a greater virtue than chastity, however perfect. Chastity carries within it the danger of pride, but obedience has within it the promise of humility.

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

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