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Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love and self-control purify the soul.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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