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Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

It is an insult to the intelligence to be subject to what lacks intelligence and to concern itself with shameful desires.

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

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

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

Praise God continually with spiritual hymns and always remain in meditation and in this way you will be able to bear the burden of the temptations that come upon you. A traveler who is carrying a heavy load pauses from time to time and draws in deep breaths; it makes the journey easier and the burden lighter.

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

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

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

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