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Quotes

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

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

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

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

Do not neglect the practice of the virtues; if you do, your spiritual knowledge will decrease, and when famine occurs you will go down into Egypt (Genesis 41:57, 46:6).

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.

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

The man who follows Christ in solitary mourning is greater than he who praises Christ amid the congregation of men.

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

I think it best that a man should have a little bit of all the virtues. Therefore, get up early every day and acquire the beginning of every virtue and every commandment of God. Use great patience, with fear and long-suffering, in the love of God, with all the fervor of your soul and body. Exercise great humility, bear with interior distress; be vigilant and pray often with reverence and groaning, with purity of speech and control of your eyes. When you are despised do not get angry; be at peace, and do not render evil for evil. Do not pay attention to the faults of others, and do not try to compare yourself with others, knowing you are less than every created thing. Renounce everything material and that which is of the flesh. Live by the cross, in warfare, in poverty of spirit, in voluntary spiritual asceticism, in fasting, penitence and tears, in discernment, in purity of soul, taking hold of that which is good. Do your work in peace. Persevere in keeping vigil, in hunger and thirst, in cold and nakedness, and in sufferings. Shut yourself in a tomb as though you were already dead, so that at all times you will think death is near.

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

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

If you lay down rules for yourself, do not disobey yourself; for he who cheats himself is self-deluded.

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

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

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

Therefore with your whole soul you should acknowledge yourself as worthy of enduring more than you already endure; remember the words which Christ the Savior spoke concerning a good deed done to one’s neighbor, words which should apply equally to every offensive word or deed against one’s neighbor. Whatever you have done to your neighbor, He says, you have done to Me.

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

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