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Quotes

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

Faith is the door to mysteries. What the bodily eyes are to sensory objects, faith is to the eyes of the intellect that gaze at hidden treasures.

The man who follows Christ in solitary mourning is greater than he who praises Christ amid the congregation of men.

Love the poor, and through them you will find mercy.

Sweet to the laborer is bread earned by his own sweat. Until a man has sweated, the bread of truth will not satisfy him.

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

One who is capable of seeing himself is better than one who has been made worthy to see angels.

Do not disdain those who are handicapped from birth, because all of us will go to the grave equally privileged.

Be despised and rejected in your own eyes, and you will see the glory of God within yourself. For where humility blossoms, there God’s glory bursts forth.

Until we find love, our labor is in the land of tares, and in the midst of tares we both sow and reap, even if our seed is the seed of righteousness.

It is not possible for any man to draw near to Christ without tribulation, and without afflictions his righteousness cannot be preserved unchanged. If he puts an end to the labors that make righteousness increase, he will put an end to that which guards it, and his righteousness will be like unguarded treasure. And he will be like a gladiator surrounded by enemy ranks and stripped of his weapons, like a ship bereft of its sails and tackle, and like a garden deprived of its source of water.

Ever let mercy outweigh all else in you. Let our compassion be a mirror where we may see in ourselves that likeness and that true image which belong to the Divine nature and Divine essence. A heart hard and unmerciful will never be pure.

Do not oppose the thoughts, which the enemy sows in you, but rather cut off all converse with them by prayer to God. We have not always strength enough so to oppose hostile thoughts as to stop them; on the contrary, in such attempts they frequently inflict us with a wound that is long in healing.

The man who is conscious of his sins is greater than he who profits the whole world by the sight of his countenance.

Self-love precedes all passions, and the scorn of ease precedes all the virtues.

This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits.

As a cloud veils the light of the moon, so the vapors of the belly banish the wisdom of God from the soul.

Except for unceasing prayer we cannot draw near to God.

When I wish to open my mouth and to speak on the exalted theme of humility, I am filled with dread, like someone who is aware that he is about to discourse with his own imperfect words concerning God.

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