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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Patience increases obedience to the Divine words that have been written, are being written, and will be written.

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

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.

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

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5025 E. Mill Rd
Broadview Heights, Ohio 44147

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