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Quotes

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

Do not trust that because of abstinence you will not fall. One who had never eaten was cast from Heaven.

A fish swiftly escapes a hook and a sensual soul shuns solitude.

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

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.

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

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

Until we have acquired true prayer, we are like those who introduce children to walking. Make the effort to raise up, or rather, to enclose your mind within the words of your prayer; and if, like a child, it gets tired and falters, raise it up again. The mind, after all, is naturally unstable, but the God Who can do everything can also give it firm endurance. Persevere in this, therefore, and do not grow weary...

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

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

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.

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

He who has obtained the fear of the Lord has forsaken lying, having within himself an incorruptible judge – his own conscience.

If, wishing to correct another, you are moved to anger, you gratify your own passion. Do not lose yourself in order to save another.

Blessed is he who, though maligned and disparaged every day for the Lord's sake, constrains himself to be patient. He will join the chorus of the martyrs, and boldly converse with the angels.

The man who pets a lion may tame it, but the man who coddles the body makes it ravenous.

Wrath is a reminder of hidden hatred, that is to say, remembrance of wrongs. Wrath is a desire for the injury of the one who has provoked you. Irascibility is the untimely blazing up of the heart. Bitterness is a movement of displeasure seated in the soul. Anger is an easily changeable movement of one’s disposition and disfiguration of soul.

Sleep is a particular state of nature, an image of death, inactivity of the senses. Sleep is one, but, like desire, its sources and occasions are many; that is to say, it comes from nature, from food, from demons, or perhaps, sometimes, from extreme and prolonged fasting, through which the flesh is weakened and at last longs for the consolation of sleep.

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