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Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

Struggle until death to fulfill the commandments: purified through them, you will enter into life.

Guard yourselves from soul-destroying heresy, communion with which is alienation from Christ.

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

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

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

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

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).

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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