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

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

The person who listens to Christ fills himself with light; and if he imitates Christ, he reclaims himself.

Struggle until death to fulfill the commandments: purified through them, you will enter into life.

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

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

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

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).

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

Love and self-control purify the soul.

Break the bonds of your friendship for the body and give it only what is absolutely necessary.

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

The intellect becomes a stranger to the things of this world when its attachment to the senses has been completely sundered.

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

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

A wise man is one who pays attention to himself and is quick to separate himself from all defilement.

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.

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

Spiritual reading and prayer purify the intellect, while love and self-control purify the soul's passionate aspect.

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