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Quotes

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

All sin is due to sensual pleasure, all forgiveness to hardship and distress.

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

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

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

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

Love and self-control purify the soul.

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

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

Make the body serve the commandments, keeping it so far as possible free from sickness and sensual pleasure.

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

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.

Patient endurance is the soul's struggle for virtue; where there is struggle for virtue, self-indulgence is banished.

A wise man is one who pays attention to himself and is quick to separate himself from all defilement.

Praise God continually with spiritual hymns and always remain in meditation and in this way you will be able to bear the burden of the temptations that come upon you. A traveler who is carrying a heavy load pauses from time to time and draws in deep breaths; it makes the journey easier and the burden lighter.

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.

Do not neglect the practice of the virtues; if you do, your spiritual knowledge will decrease, and when famine occurs you will go down into Egypt (Genesis 41:57, 46:6).

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

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