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Quotes

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

Ignorance of the scriptures is a precipice and a deep abyss.

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

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

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

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

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

The person who listens to Christ fills himself with light; and if he imitates Christ, he reclaims himself.

Love and self-control purify the soul.

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).

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

Patient endurance is the soul's struggle for virtue; where there is struggle for virtue, self-indulgence is banished.

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

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

If you abandon God and are a slave to the passions, you cannot reap God's mercy.

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

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

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

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

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