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Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reading the scriptures is a great safeguard against sin.

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

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

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.

Love and self-control purify the soul.

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

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

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

Long-suffering and readiness to forgive curb anger; love and compassion wither it.

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

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

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

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