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

As galloping horses race one another, so a good community excites mutual fervor.

Meekness is an unchangeable state of mind, which remains the same in honor and dishonor.

As a ray of sun, passing through a crack, lights everything in the house and shows up even the finest dust, so the fear of the Lord, entering a man's heart, reveals to him all his sins.

Our good Redeemer, by speedily granting what is asked, draws to His love those who are grateful. But He keeps ungrateful souls praying a long time before Him, hungering and thirsting for what they want, since a badly trained dog rushes off as soon as it is given bread and leaves the giver behind.

A vigilant monk is a foe to fornication, but a sleepy one is its mate.

A man who has embraced poverty offers up prayer that is pure, while a man who loves possessions prays to material images.

The fathers have laid down that psalmody is a weapon, and prayer is a wall, and honest tears are a bath; but blessed obedience in their judgment is confession of faith, without which no one subject to the passions will see the Lord.

Satiety of the stomach dries the tear sprints, but the stomach when dried produces these waters.

I consider those fallen mourners more blessed than those who have not fallen and are not mourning over themselves; because as a result of their fall, they have risen by a sure resurrection.

In detachment, the spirit finds quiet and repose for coveting nothing. Nothing wearies it by elation, and nothing oppresses it by dejection, because it stands in the center of its own humility.

Greater than baptism itself is the fountain of tears after baptism, even though it is somewhat audacious to say so. For baptism is the washing away of evils that were in us before, but sins committed after baptism are washed away by tears. As baptism is received in infancy, we have all defiled it, but we cleanse it anew with tears. And if God in His love for mankind had not given us tears, those being saved would be few indeed and hard to find.

Do not go into detail in confessing carnal acts, lest you become a traitor to yourself.

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

He who has become aware of his sins has controlled his tongue, but a talkative person has not yet come to know himself as he should.

If it is a mark of extreme meekness, even in the presence of one’s offender, to be peacefully and lovingly disposed towards him in one’s heart, then it is certainly a mark of hot temper when a person continues to quarrel and rage against his offender, both by words and gestures, even when by himself.

Increasing self-criticism is the sign of increasing humility. Indeed, there is no clearer sign.

Those who mourn and those who are insensitive are not subject to fear, but the cowardly often have become deranged. And this is natural. For the Lord rightly forsakes the proud that the rest of us may learn not to be puffed up.

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

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