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

Apt silence bridles anger.

Observe your thoughts, and beware of what you have in your heart and your spirit, knowing that the demons put ideas into you so as to corrupt your soul by making it think of that which is not right, in order to turn your spirit from the consideration of your sins and of God.

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

If you have a heart, you can be saved.

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

Control your stomach, sleep, anger, and tongue, and you will not 'dash your foot against a stone.'

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

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

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

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

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

Strive as well as you can to enter deeply with the heart into the church reading and singing and to imprint these on the tablets of the heart.

Make the body serve the commandments, keeping it so far as possible free from sickness and sensual pleasure.

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

The man who follows Christ in solitary mourning is greater than he who praises Christ amid the congregation of men.

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

Go to the tombs and see that the assurance of men is nothing. Why then does man who is dust indulge in vainglory? Why does he who is all stench exalt himself? Let us therefore weep for ourselves while we have time, lest, at the hour of our departure, we be found asking God for extra time to repent.

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

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5025 E. Mill Rd
Broadview Heights, Ohio 44147

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