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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.'

The lower you descend, the higher you ascend; and when, like the psalmist, you regard yourself as nothing before the Lord (cf. Ps. 39:5), then imperceptibly you will grow great. And when you begin to realize that you have nothing and know nothing, then you will become rich in the Lord through the practice of the virtues and spiritual knowledge.

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

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

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

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

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.

Self-love -- that is, friendship for the body -- is the source of evil in the soul.

Just as desire and rage multiply our sins, so self-control and humility erase them.

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

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

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

Blessed stillness gives birth to blessed children: self-control, love and pure prayer.

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

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

Half an hour of the Jesus Prayer is worth as much as three hours of deep sleep. The prolonged Jesus Prayer rests and calms us.

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

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