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Quotes

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

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.

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

The beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord. For where there is fear, there the commandments are kept; where the commandments are kept, there is the flesh purified—that cloud which envelops the soul and prevents it from seeing clearly the Divine ray; where the flesh is purified, there light springs forth, and the shining of the light fulfils desire above all desires.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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