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Archangel Michael Logo

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

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

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

Ignorance of the scriptures is a precipice and a deep abyss.

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

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

Was there ever anyone of any breeding who dared to speak the name of Holy Mary, and being questioned, did not immediately add, 'the Virgin'? For by such added names the positive proofs of merit are apparent... And to the Holy Mary, Virgin is invariably added, for that Holy Woman remains undefiled.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Keep close to Jesus.

Spiritual freedom is release from the passions; without Christ’s mercy you cannot attain it.

In the humble God rejoices, but from the proud He is driven away; where there is humility, the glory of God shines forth.

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

Apt silence bridles anger.

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

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Archangel Michael Orthodox Church
5025 E. Mill Rd
Broadview Heights, Ohio 44147

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