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

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

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

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

Prayer is the mind's dialogue with God, in which words of petition are uttered with the intellect riveted wholly on God. For when the mind unceasingly repeats the name of the Lord and the intellect gives its full attention to the invocation of the divine name, the light of the knowledge of God overshadows the entire soul like a luminous cloud.

Love and self-control purify the soul.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

If a man accuses himself, he is protected on all sides.

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

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

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