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

Stint your stomach and you will certainly lock your mouth, because the tongue is strengthened by an abundance of food. Struggle with all your might against the stomach and restrain it with all sobriety. If you labor a little, the Lord will also soon work with you.

It is not safe to swim in one's clothes, nor should a slave of passion touch theology.

Do not condemn, even if you see with your eyes, for they are often deceived.

Some, for the sake of forgiveness, give themselves up to labors and struggles, but a man who is forgetful of wrongs excels them. If you forgive quickly, then you will be generously forgiven.

If a person swallows too much food, he is inviting impure thoughts. If he mortifies the stomach, he is creating pure thoughts. Often a lion if it is caressed becomes domesticated, whereas the more you coddle the body, the more it goes wild.

Do not regard the feelings of a person who speaks to you about his neighbor disparagingly, but rather say to him: 'Stop, brother! I fall into graver sins every day, so how can I criticize him?' In this way you will achieve two things: you will heal yourself and your neighbor with one plaster. This is one of the shortest ways to the forgiveness of sins; I mean, not to judge. 'Judge not, and ye shall not be judged,' (Luke 6:37).

A vigilant eye makes the mind pure; but much sleep hardens the soul.

Obedience is absolute renunciation of our own life, clearly expressed in our bodily actions. Or, conversely, obedience is the mortification of the limbs while the mind remains alive. Obedience is unquestioning movement, voluntary death, a life free of curiosity, carefree danger, unprepared defense before God, fearlessness of death, a safe voyage, a sleeper’s progress. Obedience is the tomb of the will and the resurrection of humility. A corpse does not argue or reason as to what is good or what seems to be bad. For he who has devoutly put the soul of the novice to death will answer for everything. Obedience is an abandonment of discernment in a wealth of discernment.

Meekness is the fellow-worker of obedience, the guide of the brotherhood, a bridle for the enraged, a check to the irritable, a minister of joy, the imitation of Christ, something proper to angels, shackles for demons, a shield against bitterness.

Love and humility form a holy pair; what the first builds, the second binds, thus preventing the building from falling asunder.

Meekness consists in praying calmly and sincerely for a neighbor when he causes many turmoils.

Where a fall has overtaken us, there pride has already pitched its tent; because a fall is an indication of pride.

He who refuses to accept a criticism, just or not, renounces his own salvation, while he who accepts it, hard or not though it may be, will soon have his sins forgiven.

Lying is wiped out by the tortures of superiors; but it is finally destroyed by an abundance of tears.

It is a great work to shake from the soul the praise of men, but to reject the praise of demons is greater.

Do not be surprised that you fall every day; do not give up, but stand your ground courageously. And assuredly, the angel who guards you will honor your patience.

Self-knowledge is a true idea of one's spiritual growth, and an unbroken remembrance of one's slightest sins.

People of high spirit bear offence nobly and gladly, but only the holy and righteous can pass through praise without harm.

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