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

Patience adorns the soul with diamonds which are not of the earth but belong to the Jerusalem that is above. Patience is a sweet word. Patience is a sweet breath. Patience is an invincible weapon. Patience is a priceless adornment of man. Patience is a blessing of God.

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

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

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

A Christian has great difficulty in attaining three things: grief (over sins), tears, and the continual memory of death. Yet these contain all of the other virtues.

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

Long-suffering and readiness to forgive curb anger; love and compassion wither it.

Worldly virtues promote human glory, spiritual virtues the glory of God.

The greatest weapons of someone striving to lead a life of inward stillness are self-control, love, prayer, and spiritual reading.

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

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

Exercise patience out of love for your fellow man. Exercise patience in order to benefit your soul. For if you do not take your soul into consideration, you lose your patience.

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

Love and self-control purify the soul.

To those who would fain stand, neither the guardianship of saints nor the defences of angels are wanting.

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

Only the tears of repentance are able to cleanse the soul.

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

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