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Quotes

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

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

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

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

Control your stomach, sleep, anger, and tongue, and you will not 'dash your foot against a stone.'

Spiritual freedom is release from the passions; without Christ’s mercy you cannot attain it.

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

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

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

A treasure that is known is quickly spent: and even so any virtue that is commented on and made a public show of is destroyed. Even as wax is melted before the face of fire, so is the soul enfeebled by praise, and loses the toughness of its virtue.

Love and self-control purify the soul.

Keep the commandments, and you will find peace; love God, and you will attain spiritual knowledge.

If you lay down rules for yourself, do not disobey yourself; for he who cheats himself is self-deluded.

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

A man is neither saved nor lost by the place he is in, but is saved or lost by his deeds. Neither a holy place nor a holy state is of use to him who does not fulfill the commandments of the Lord.

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

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

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

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

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