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Quotes

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

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

Make the body serve the commandments, keeping it so far as possible free from sickness and sensual pleasure.

If you are not willing to repent through freely choosing to suffer, unsought sufferings will providentially be imposed on you.

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

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).

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

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

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

Accordingly, a man will neither be puffed up through pride, nor cast down by despair, if he uses the good things divinely bestowed on him, to the glory of the Giver; withholding his desires from the things which he knows will hurt him. And so he that would preserve himself from the wickedness of envy, from the corruption of sensuality, from the unrest of anger, from the desire of revenge, will be purified by the sanctifying power of true abstinence, and will taste the joy of imperishable delights, so that by making spiritual use of them, he will learn to change earthly possessions into heavenly, not by storing what he has received, but by multiplying more and more that which he has been given.

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

God-fearing sorrow mourns either its own sins, or those of others.

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.

For by prayer we obtain the divine favor, by fasting we extinguish the concupiscences of the flesh, by almsgiving sins are redeemed (Dan. iv. 24); and by all three together, the image of God is renewed in us, provided that we are ever ready in His praise, eager without ceasing for our own purification, and disposed at all times to assist our neighbor.

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

There is nothing more efficacious against the wiles of the devil, dearly beloved, than the kindness of forgiveness, and the bountifulness in charity, by means of which sin is either avoided or overcome.

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

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

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