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Quotes

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

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

Break the bonds of your friendship for the body and give it only what is absolutely necessary.

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

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

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

If you are not willing to repent through freely choosing to suffer, unsought sufferings will providentially be imposed on you.

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

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.

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

The soul's health consists in dispassion and spiritual knowledge; no slave to sensual pleasure can attain it.

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

Was there ever anyone of any breeding who dared to speak the name of Holy Mary, and being questioned, did not immediately add, 'the Virgin'? For by such added names the positive proofs of merit are apparent... And to the Holy Mary, Virgin is invariably added, for that Holy Woman remains undefiled.

Our own will is like a wall of brass between us and God, preventing us from coming near to Him or contemplating His mercy.

Love and self-control purify the soul.

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

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

Ignorance of the scriptures is a precipice and a deep abyss.

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

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