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Quotes

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

Love and self-control purify the soul.

Worldly virtues promote human glory, spiritual virtues the glory of God.

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

Make the body serve the commandments, keeping it so far as possible free from sickness and sensual pleasure.

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

Listlessness is an apathy of soul; and a soul becomes apathetic when sick with self-indulgence.

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).

Self-love -- that is, friendship for the body -- is the source of evil in the soul.

He who fears God will pay careful attention to his soul and will free himself from communion with evil.

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

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

Concern for one's soul means hardship and humility, for through these God forgives us all our sins.

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

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

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

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

Spiritual reading and prayer purify the intellect, while love and self-control purify the soul's passionate aspect.

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

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