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

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

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

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

Pray ceaselessly, and spend day after day in heedfulness unto the salvation of your soul.

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

Labor conscientiously, pray, and ask God for patience. Tribulations are a good sign; they show that we are on the narrow way.

God is visiting you when tears come during prayer.

Do you wish God to hear your prayer immediately, brother? When you lift your hands up to heaven, pray first of all, with your heart, for your enemies and God will grant you speedily whatever else you request.

Humility never falls, for it lies beneath everything.

Humility and the fear of God are above all virtues.

Blessed stillness gives birth to blessed children: self-control, love and pure prayer.

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

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

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

Humble yourself, reproach yourself, consider yourself the very last and the very worst of all, condemn no one - and you will receive God's mercy.

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

Do you wish God to hear your prayer immediately, brother? When you lift your hands up to heaven, pray first of all, with your heart, for your enemies and God will grant you speedily whatever else you request.

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.

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5025 E. Mill Rd
Broadview Heights, Ohio 44147

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