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

Never prefer gain for yourself over that which is beneficial for your brother.

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

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

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A dog is better than I am, for he has love and he does not judge.

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

Love and self-control purify the soul.

Our life and our death is with our neighbor. If we gain our brother, we have gained God, but if we scandalize our brother, we have sinned against Christ.

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.

Mind is not soul, but a gift from God which saves the soul. A mind pleasing to God flows ahead of the soul and counsels it to scorn the temporal, material and corruptible, and to love blessings that are eternal, incorruptible and immaterial, so that, while living in the body, man should, with his mind, apprehend and contemplate the heavenly and the divine. In this way a God-loving mind is a benefactor and savior of the human soul.

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

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

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

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.

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

The greatest weapons of someone striving to lead a life of inward stillness are self-control, love, prayer, and spiritual reading.

He who guards his lips, watches over his soul; but he who is bold with his lips, dishonors himself. Silence gathers, but much talking scatters.

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

Go and have pity on all, for through pity, one finds freedom of speech before God.

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