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

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

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

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

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

Control your stomach, sleep, anger, and tongue, and you will not 'dash your foot against a stone.'

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

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

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

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

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

Concern for one's soul means hardship and humility, for through these God forgives us all our sins.

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

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

Half an hour of the Jesus Prayer is worth as much as three hours of deep sleep. The prolonged Jesus Prayer rests and calms us.

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

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

It is better to eat meat and drink wine and not to eat the flesh of one's brethren through slander.

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

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