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

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

He who gives thanks, and he who glorifies, have kindred feelings, in that they bless their Helper for the benefits they have received.

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

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

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

Constant prayer is the strength, and the armor, and the wall of the soul.

Do not neglect the practice of the virtues; if you do, your spiritual knowledge will decrease, and when famine occurs you will go down into Egypt (Genesis 41:57, 46:6).

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

Keep close to Jesus.

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

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

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

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

If you are not willing to repent through freely choosing to suffer, unsought sufferings will providentially be imposed on you.

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

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

The person who is unaffected by the things of this world loves stillness; and he who loves no human thing loves all men.

Spiritual freedom is release from the passions; without Christ’s mercy you cannot attain it.

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5025 E. Mill Rd
Broadview Heights, Ohio 44147

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