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

When someone is free, he has rights and obligations. When he gets married, he has few rights and very many obligations. When, however, he obtains children also, he has no rights, but only obligations.

It is better to eat meat and drink wine and not to eat the flesh of one's brethren through slander.

True escape from the world is for a person to know how to control his tongue, wherever he might be.

Go and have pity on all, for through pity, one finds freedom of speech before God.

Four monks of Scetis, clothed in skins, came one day to see the great Pambo. Each one revealed the virtue of his neighbor. The first fasted a great deal; the second was poor; the third had acquired great charity; and they said of the fourth that he had lived for twenty-two years in obedience to an old man. Abba Pambo said to them, 'I tell you, the virtue of this last one is the greatest. Each of the others has obtained the virtue he wished to acquire; but the last one, restraining his own will, does the will of another. Now it is of such men that the martyrs are made, if they persevere to the end.'

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.

If you have a heart, you can be saved.

The way of humility is this: self-control, prayer, and thinking yourself inferior to all creatures.

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