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Quotes

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

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.

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

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

The lower you descend, the higher you ascend; and when, like the psalmist, you regard yourself as nothing before the Lord (cf. Ps. 39:5), then imperceptibly you will grow great. And when you begin to realize that you have nothing and know nothing, then you will become rich in the Lord through the practice of the virtues and spiritual knowledge.

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

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

Self-love -- that is, friendship for the body -- is the source of evil in the soul.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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