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Archangel Michael Logo

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.

The grace of God which brings peace and joy to the heart flees from the spiteful.

For the washing away of bodily dirtiness God has given water. And for the washing of spiritual foulness, God has given the grace of the holy Sacrament of Confession. Every man, when he dirties his hands, washes them. No one says, 'I will not wash my hands anymore, because I will get them dirty again!' But why is it then that many people say, 'I will not go to Confession, because I will not sin again tomorrow!' It is clear that the enemy of our salvation is enticing us not to wash our souls, so that he can gain power over them.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Apt silence bridles anger.

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

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

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

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

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