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

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

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

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

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

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

Apt silence bridles anger.

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

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

Apt silence bridles anger.

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

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

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

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

Let not us who would be Christians expect anything else than to be crucified...for to be Christian is to be crucified in this time and in any time since Christ came for the first time. His life is the example and warning to us all. We must be crucified personally, mystically; for through crucifixion is the only path to resurrection, if we would rise with Christ, we must be humbled with him even to the ultimate humiliation, being devoured and spit forth by the uncomprehending world...we must be crucified outwardly in the eyes of the world, for Christ’s kingdom is not of this world and the world cannot bear it, even a single representative, even for the single moment. The world can only accept Antichrist now or at any time.

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

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

Keep close to Jesus.

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

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