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

Love and humility form a holy pair; what the first builds, the second binds, thus preventing the building from falling asunder.

It is a great work to shake from the soul the praise of men, but to reject the praise of demons is greater.

The beginning of the mortification both of the soul’s desire and of the bodily members is much hard work. The middle is sometimes laborious and sometimes not laborious. But the end is insensibility and insusceptibility to toil and pain. Only when he sees himself doing his own will does this blessed living corpse feel sorry and sick at heart; and he fears the responsibility of using his own judgment.

Be concentrated without self-display, withdrawn into your heart.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

Let your very dress urge you to the work of mourning, because all who lament the dead are dressed in black. If you do not mourn, mourn for this cause. And if you mourn, lament still more that, by your sins, you have brought yourself down from a state free of labors to one of labor.

Where a fall has overtaken us, there pride has already pitched its tent; because a fall is an indication of pride.

It seems to me that, in all cases when indignity is offered to us, we should be silent; for it is our moment of profit.

A man who has embraced poverty offers up prayer that is pure, while a man who loves possessions prays to material images.

As the gradual pouring of water on a fire completely extinguishes the flame, so the tears of mourning are able to quench every flame of anger and irritability. Therefore, we place this next in order. (after mourning).

I think that for those living in community obedience is a greater virtue than chastity, however perfect. Chastity carries within it the danger of pride, but obedience has within it the promise of humility.

Meekness consists in praying calmly and sincerely for a neighbor when he causes many turmoils.

Increasing self-criticism is the sign of increasing humility. Indeed, there is no clearer sign.

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

Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing.

He who has tasted the things on high easily despises what is below. But he who has not tasted the things above finds joy in possessions.

Some, for the sake of forgiveness, give themselves up to labors and struggles, but a man who is forgetful of wrongs excels them. If you forgive quickly, then you will be generously forgiven.

If it is a mark of extreme meekness, even in the presence of one’s offender, to be peacefully and lovingly disposed towards him in one’s heart, then it is certainly a mark of hot temper when a person continues to quarrel and rage against his offender, both by words and gestures, even when by himself.

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.

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