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Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

You were commanded to keep the body as a servant, not to be unnaturally enslaved to its pleasures.

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

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

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

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

Keep the commandments, and you will find peace; love God, and you will attain spiritual knowledge.

Do not seek to find the cause of temptations or whence they come; only pray to suffer them with gratitude.

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

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

The study of divine principles teaches knowledge of God to the person who lives in truth, longing and reverence.

Patient endurance is the soul's struggle for virtue; where there is struggle for virtue, self-indulgence is banished.

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

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

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.

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