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Quotes

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

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

If a king wanted to take possession of his enemy's city, he would begin by cutting off the water and the food and so his enemies, dying of hunger, would submit to him. It is the same with the passions of the flesh; if a man goes about fasting and hungry the enemies of his soul grow weak.

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

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

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

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

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

The study of divine principles teaches knowledge of God to the person who lives in truth, longing and reverence.

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

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

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.

If, wishing to correct another, you are moved to anger, you gratify your own passion. Do not lose yourself in order to save another.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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