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

It is by warfare that the soul makes progress.

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

Keep your mind from malicious thoughts of your neighbors, knowing that such thoughts are hurled by diabolical power, to keep your mind from your own sins and from seeking.

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

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.

A monk is he who wants to sleep and does not sleep, who wants to eat and does not eat, who wants to drink and does not drink. A monk is distinguished by ‘continual forcing of nature.’

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Break the bonds of your friendship for the body and give it only what is absolutely necessary.

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

The soul's health consists in dispassion and spiritual knowledge; no slave to sensual pleasure can attain it.

Be subject to the bishop as to the Lord, for 'he watches for your souls, as one that shall give account to God.'

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5025 E. Mill Rd
Broadview Heights, Ohio 44147

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