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

Do not condemn, even if you see with your eyes, for they are often deceived.

Repentance is the renewal of baptism. Repentance is a contract with God for a second life. A penitent is a buyer of humility. Repentance is constant distrust of bodily comfort. Repentance is self-condemning reflection, and carefree self-care. Repentance is the daughter of hope and the renunciation of despair.

Before all else, let us list sincere thanksgiving first on the scroll of our prayer. On the second line, we should put confession and heartfelt contrition of soul. Then let us present our petition to the King of all. This is the best way of prayer, as it was shown to one of the brethren by an angel of the Lord.

A servant of the Lord is he who in body stands before men, but in mind knocks at Heaven with prayer.

No one in the face of blasphemous thoughts need think that the guilt lies within him, for the Lord is the Knower of hearts, and He is aware that such words and thoughts do not come from us but from our foes.

Meekness consists in praying calmly and sincerely for a neighbor when he causes many turmoils.

He who has become aware of his sins has controlled his tongue, but a talkative person has not yet come to know himself as he should.

Do not trust that because of abstinence you will not fall. One who had never eaten was cast from Heaven.

Faith comes not through pondering but through action.

It seems to me that, in all cases when indignity is offered to us, we should be silent; for it is our moment of profit.

True joy is the joy of consolation, the joy that wells up in the knowledge of one's own weakness and the Lord's mercy, and that does not need the bared teeth of laughter to express itself.

He who has put a stop to anger has also destroyed remembrance of wrongs; because childbirth continues only while the father is alive.

Love, by its nature, is a resemblance to God, insofar as this is humanly possible. In its activity it is inebriation of the soul. Its distinctive character is to be a fountain of faith, an abyss of patience, a sea of humility.

Patience is an unbroken labor of the soul which is never shaken by deserved or undeserved blows.

A vigilant eye makes the mind pure; but much sleep hardens the soul.

A man who has embraced poverty offers up prayer that is pure, while a man who loves possessions prays to material images.

Those who mourn and those who are insensitive are not subject to fear, but the cowardly often have become deranged. And this is natural. For the Lord rightly forsakes the proud that the rest of us may learn not to be puffed up.

A person standing at an open window hears the sounds from outside; it is impossible not to do so. But he can give the voices his attention or not, as he himself wishes. The praying person is continually beset by a stream of inappropriate thoughts, feelings and mental impressions. To stop this tiresome stream is as impracticable as to stop the air from circulating in an open room. But one can notice them or not. This, say the saints, one learns only through practice.

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