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

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

Everything has already begun, and everything always begins anew for the Church, with the Resurrection of our Lord.

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

If a man tries to overcome temptations without prayer and patient endurance, he will become more entangled in them instead of driving them away.

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

He who reveres the Lord does what is commanded, and if he commits some sin or disobeys Him, endures whatever he has to suffer for this as being his desert.

Love and self-control purify the soul.

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

Deeper spiritual knowledge helps the hard hearted man: for unless he has fear, he refuses to accept the labor of repentance.

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.

He who repents rightly does not imagine that it is his own effort which cancels his former sins, but through this effort he makes his peace with God.

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

If a man has some spiritual gift and feels compassion for those who do not have it, he preserves the gift because of his compassion. But a boastful man will lose it through succumbing to the temptations of boastfulness.

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

A man is neither saved nor lost by the place he is in, but is saved or lost by his deeds. Neither a holy place nor a holy state is of use to him who does not fulfill the commandments of the Lord.

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

The self-indulgent are distressed by criticism and hardship; those who love God by praise and luxury.

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5025 E. Mill Rd
Broadview Heights, Ohio 44147

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