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Quotes

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

The person who is unaffected by the things of this world loves stillness; and he who loves no human thing loves all men.

Fear of the Lord conquers desire, and distress that accords with God's will repulses sensual pleasure.

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

Strive to love every man equally, and you will simultaneously expel all the passions.

Control your stomach, sleep, anger, and tongue, and you will not 'dash your foot against a stone.'

The intellect becomes a stranger to the things of this world when its attachment to the senses has been completely sundered.

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

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

One of the Fathers said: just as it is impossible for a man to see his face in troubled water, so too the soul, unless it be cleansed of alien thoughts, cannot pray to God in contemplation.

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

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

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).

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

The person who listens to Christ fills himself with light; and if he imitates Christ, he reclaims himself.

It is an insult to the intelligence to be subject to what lacks intelligence and to concern itself with shameful desires.

Struggle until death to fulfill the commandments: purified through them, you will enter into life.

Love and self-control purify the soul.

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

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