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Quotes

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

Every man that loves God loves a quiet life.

Whenever in your path you find unchanging peace, beware: you are very far from the divine paths trodden by the weary feet of the saints. For as long as you are journeying in the way to the city of the Kingdom and are drawing near the city of God, this will be a sign for you: the strength of the temptations that you encounter. And the nearer you draw close and progress, the more temptations will multiply against you.

Virtues are connected with suffering.

Love giving hospitality, my child, for it opens the gates of Paradise. In this you also offer hospitality to angels. 'Entertain strangers so that you won't be a stranger to God.'

Do not keep company with the disputatious, lest you be forced to take leave of your calm.

Love of God proceeds from conversing with him; this conversation of prayer comes about through stillness, and stillness comes with the stripping away of the self.

Virtues are connected with suffering. He who flees suffering is sure to be parted from virtue.

Joyfully accept bitter trials, that they may violently shake you for a brief moment, and that afterward you may be sweetened.

But if you give a strong body rest and ease and idleness, all the passions dwelling in the soul are intensified. Then, even if the soul has a great desire for good, even the very thought of the good that is desired will be taken from you.

Why do you increase your bonds? Take hold of your life before your light grows dark and you seek help and do not find it. This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits.

Humility, even without works, can save a man.

The prayer of one who does not consider himself sinful is not well-pleasing to God.

Ease and idleness are the destruction of the soul and they can injure her more than the demons.

As a man whose head is under water cannot inhale pure air, so a man whose thoughts are plunged into the cares of this world cannot absorb the sensations of that new world.

An unmerciful ascetic is a barren tree.

God is visiting you when tears come during prayer.

Do not hate the sinner. Become a proclaimer of God's grace, seeing that God provides for you even though you are unworthy.

It is a spiritual gift from God for a man to perceive his sins.

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