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Quotes

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

Be concentrated without self-display, withdrawn into your heart. For the demons fear concentration as thieves fear dogs.

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

If you possess the gift of mourning, hold on to it with all your might. For it is easily lost when it is not firmly established. And just as wax melts in the presence of fire, so it is easily dissolved by noise and bodily cares, and by luxury, and especially by talkativeness and levity.

Blessed stillness gives birth to blessed children: self-control, love and pure prayer.

A servant of the Lord is he who in body stands before men, but in mind knocks at Heaven with prayer.

Until we have acquired true prayer, we are like those who introduce children to walking. Make the effort to raise up, or rather, to enclose your mind within the words of your prayer; and if, like a child, it gets tired and falters, raise it up again. The mind, after all, is naturally unstable, but the God Who can do everything can also give it firm endurance. Persevere in this, therefore, and do not grow weary...

Do not hesitate to go late at night to those places where you usually feel afraid. But if you yield only a little to such weakness, then this childish and ridiculous infirmity will grow old with you. As you go on your way, arm yourself with prayer. When you reach the place, stretch out your hands. Flog your enemies with the name of Jesus, for there is no stronger weapon in heaven or earth. When you get rid of the disease of fear, praise Him who has delivered you. If you continue to be thankful, He will protect you for ever.

Control your appetites before they control you.

Lying is wiped out by the tortures of superiors; but it is finally destroyed by an abundance of tears.

Do not trust that because of abstinence you will not fall. One who had never eaten was cast from Heaven.

The person who is unaffected by the things of this world loves stillness; and he who loves no human thing loves all men.

Meekness is an immovable state of soul which remains unaffected, whether in evil report or in good report, in dishonor or in praise.

I wish I could persuade spiritual persons that the way of perfection does not consist in many devices, nor in much cogitation, but in denying themselves completely and yielding themselves to suffer everything for the love of Christ. And if there is failure in this exercise, all other methods of walking in the spiritual way are merely a beating about the bush, and profitless trifling, although a person should have very high contemplation and communication with God.

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

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

He who really keeps account of his actions considers as lost every day in which he does not mourn, whatever good he may have done in it.

He who has put a stop to anger has also destroyed remembrance of wrongs; because childbirth continues only while the father is alive.

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

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