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

Strive to love every man equally, and you will simultaneously expel all the passions.

For now is the time to labor for the Lord, for salvation is found in the day of affliction: for it is written: 'In your patience gain ye your souls' (Luke 21:19)

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

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

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

Blessed stillness gives birth to blessed children: self-control, love and pure prayer.

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

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

Everything you do in revenge against a brother who has harmed you will come back to your mind at the time of prayer.

Let not us who would be Christians expect anything else than to be crucified...for to be Christian is to be crucified in this time and in any time since Christ came for the first time. His life is the example and warning to us all. We must be crucified personally, mystically; for through crucifixion is the only path to resurrection, if we would rise with Christ, we must be humbled with him even to the ultimate humiliation, being devoured and spit forth by the uncomprehending world...we must be crucified outwardly in the eyes of the world, for Christ’s kingdom is not of this world and the world cannot bear it, even a single representative, even for the single moment. The world can only accept Antichrist now or at any time.

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

Apt silence bridles anger.

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

Sear your loins by abstaining from food, and prove your heart by controlling your speech, and you will succeed in bringing the desiring and incensive powers of your soul into the service of what is noble and good.

If you are not willing to repent through freely choosing to suffer, unsought sufferings will providentially be imposed on you.

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

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

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

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