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Quotes

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

Spiritual freedom is release from the passions; without Christ’s mercy you cannot attain it.

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

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

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

A treasure that is known is quickly spent: and even so any virtue that is commented on and made a public show of is destroyed. Even as wax is melted before the face of fire, so is the soul enfeebled by praise, and loses the toughness of its virtue.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Reading the scriptures is a great safeguard against sin.

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

A wise man is one who pays attention to himself and is quick to separate himself from all defilement.

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

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

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