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Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Do not neglect the practice of the virtues; if you do, your spiritual knowledge will decrease, and when famine occurs you will go down into Egypt (Genesis 41:57, 46:6).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love and self-control purify 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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