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

You were commanded to keep the body as a servant, not to be unnaturally enslaved to its pleasures.

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).

When someone is beginning the spiritual life, he should not study a lot, but instead watch himself and guard his thoughts. A strong person is the one who chews well, not the one who eats a lot.

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

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.

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

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

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

Do not seek to find the cause of temptations or whence they come; only pray to suffer them with gratitude.

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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.

Love and self-control purify the soul.

Patient endurance is the soul's struggle for virtue; where there is struggle for virtue, self-indulgence is banished.

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.

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

The intellect becomes a stranger to the things of this world when its attachment to the senses has been completely sundered.

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Broadview Heights, Ohio 44147

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