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Quotes

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

In detachment, the spirit finds quiet and repose for coveting nothing. Nothing wearies it by elation, and nothing oppresses it by dejection, because it stands in the center of its own humility.

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

Meekness is an unchangeable state of mind, which remains the same in honor and dishonor.

It is a great work to shake from the soul the praise of men, but to reject the praise of demons is greater.

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

Most of us call ourselves sinners, and perhaps really think it; but it is indignity that tests the heart.

Until we have acquired true prayer, we are like those who introduce children to walking. Make the effort to raise up, or rather, to enclose your mind within the words of your prayer; and if, like a child, it gets tired and falters, raise it up again. The mind, after all, is naturally unstable, but the God Who can do everything can also give it firm endurance. Persevere in this, therefore, and do not grow weary...

Love and humility form a holy pair; what the first builds, the second binds, thus preventing the building from falling asunder.

Those who mourn and those who are insensitive are not subject to fear, but the cowardly often have become deranged. And this is natural. For the Lord rightly forsakes the proud that the rest of us may learn not to be puffed up.

The man who pets a lion may tame it, but the man who coddles the body makes it ravenous.

The demons, murderers as they are, push us into sin. Or if they fail to do this, they get us to pass judgment on those who are sinning, so that they may defile us with the stain which we ourselves are condemning in another.

Greater than baptism itself is the fountain of tears after baptism, even though it is somewhat audacious to say so. For baptism is the washing away of evils that were in us before, but sins committed after baptism are washed away by tears. As baptism is received in infancy, we have all defiled it, but we cleanse it anew with tears. And if God in His love for mankind had not given us tears, those being saved would be few indeed and hard to find.

If you feel sweetness or compunction at some word of your prayer, dwell on it; for then our guardian angel is praying with us.

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

Do not condemn, even if you see with your eyes, for they are often deceived.

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

A fish swiftly escapes a hook and a sensual soul shuns solitude.

As with the appearance of light, darkness retreats; so, at the fragrance of humility, all anger and bitterness vanishes.

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