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Quotes

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

Just as water when it squeezed on all sides shoots up above, so does the soul when it is pressed hard by dangers often rise to God and be saved.

A servant of the Lord is he who in body stands before men, but in mind knocks at Heaven with prayer.

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.

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.

Most of us call ourselves sinners, and perhaps really think it; but it is indignity that tests the heart.

Control your appetites before they control you.

The angels know how to speak about love, and even they can only do this according to the degree of their enlightenment.

Patience is an unbroken labor of the soul which is never shaken by deserved or undeserved blows.

Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing.

No one in the face of blasphemous thoughts need think that the guilt lies within him, for the Lord is the Knower of hearts, and He is aware that such words and thoughts do not come from us but from our foes.

He who has put a stop to anger has also destroyed remembrance of wrongs; because childbirth continues only while the father is alive.

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

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.

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.

Let your very dress urge you to the work of mourning, because all who lament the dead are dressed in black. If you do not mourn, mourn for this cause. And if you mourn, lament still more that, by your sins, you have brought yourself down from a state free of labors to one of labor.

As with the appearance of light, darkness retreats; so, at the fragrance of humility, all anger and bitterness vanishes.

The Lord often humbles the vainglorious by causing some dishonor to befall them. And indeed the first step in overcoming vainglory is to remain silent and to accept dishonor gladly. The middle stage is to check every act of vainglory while it is still in thought. The end—insofar as one may talk of an end to an abyss—is to be able to accept humiliation before others without actually feeling it.

He who has tasted the things on high easily despises what is below. But he who has not tasted the things above finds joy in possessions.

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