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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

No Christian believing rightly in God should ever be off his guard. He should always be on the look-out for temptation, so that when it comes he will not be surprised or disturbed, but will gladly endure the toil and affliction it causes, and so will understand what he is saying when he chants with the prophet: 'Prove me, O Lord, and try me' (Ps. 26:2 LXX). For the prophet did not say, 'Thy correction has destroyed me,' but, 'it has upheld me to the end' (Ps. 18:35 LXX).

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

Listlessness is an apathy of soul; and a soul becomes apathetic when sick with self-indulgence.

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

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

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.

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

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

According to the degree to which the intellect is stripped of the passions, the Holy Spirit initiates the intellect into the mysteries of the age to be.

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