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

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

When a valve of the heart closes to the receptivity of worldly enjoyments, another valve opens for the reception of spiritual joys.

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

Go to the tombs and see that the assurance of men is nothing. Why then does man who is dust indulge in vainglory? Why does he who is all stench exalt himself? Let us therefore weep for ourselves while we have time, lest, at the hour of our departure, we be found asking God for extra time to repent.

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

Do not pass judgment when you give advice, for you know not God's mysteries.

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

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

Love and self-control purify the soul.

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

Apt silence bridles anger.

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

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.

Blessed are they who exercise restraint, for the joys of paradise await them.

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

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.

The martyrs will show their torments, the ascetics their good works; but what will I have to show but my apathy and my incessant indulgence?

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

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