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

Cultivate patience. Patience is a heavenly gift, a gift from the Heavenly Father... With patience, and love for your fellow men, you become a victor in life's continual trials.

Patience adorns the soul with diamonds which are not of the earth but belong to the Jerusalem that is above. Patience is a sweet word. Patience is a sweet breath. Patience is an invincible weapon. Patience is a priceless adornment of man. Patience is a blessing of God.

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

It is better to eat meat and drink wine and not to eat the flesh of one's brethren through slander.

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

Forgive and pray, in order to live your life serenely. And do not do to others that which you do not want them to do to you, or return the evil which they have done to you.

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

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

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

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

Truly wretched and three times miserable is the soul that has left the world and dedicated itself to God but has not lived in a manner worthy of its promise. Then, brothers, let us not allow this age, which is short and contemptible and passes like a shadow, to steal that blessed and immortal life away from us.

Apt silence bridles anger.

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

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

The adversary will sit in the temple of Jerusalem, in order to show himself as Christ, he will demand that those who are captivated by him should worship him as Christ. The Antichrist will demand worship as if he were God.

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

A haughty person is not aware of his faults, or a humble person of his good qualities. An evil ignorance blinds the first, an ignorance pleasing to God blinds the second.

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

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