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Quotes

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

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

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

Guard yourselves from soul-destroying heresy, communion with which is alienation from Christ.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Just as desire and rage multiply our sins, so self-control and humility erase them.

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

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

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.

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

Patient endurance is the soul's struggle for virtue; where there is struggle for virtue, self-indulgence is banished.

It is an insult to the intelligence to be subject to what lacks intelligence and to concern itself with shameful desires.

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