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Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

All sin is due to sensual pleasure, all forgiveness to hardship and distress.

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

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.

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).

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

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

You were commanded to keep the body as a servant, not to be unnaturally enslaved to its pleasures.

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.

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

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

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

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

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