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Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

Break the bonds of your friendship for the body and give it only what is absolutely necessary.

The soul's health consists in dispassion and spiritual knowledge; no slave to sensual pleasure can attain it.

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

A wise man is one who pays attention to himself and is quick to separate himself from all defilement.

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

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

Keep the commandments, and you will find peace; love God, and you will attain spiritual knowledge.

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

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

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

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.

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

The intellect becomes a stranger to the things of this world when its attachment to the senses has been completely sundered.

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