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Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

A holy man told us one day, that the source of all heresies and schisms in the church was, loving God too little, and ourselves too much.

If you lay down rules for yourself, do not disobey yourself; for he who cheats himself is self-deluded.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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