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

Break the bonds of your friendship for the body and give it only what is absolutely necessary.

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

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

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.

You will not perish on account of thoughts with which you do not sympathize and from which you at least try to be freed. Only repent, & humble yourself. And God will forgive you.

Fear of the Lord conquers desire, and distress that accords with God's will repulses sensual pleasure.

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

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

The study of divine principles teaches knowledge of God to the person who lives in truth, longing and reverence.

Love and self-control purify the soul.

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

The adversary will sit in the temple of Jerusalem, in order to show himself as Christ, he will demand that those who are captivated by him should worship him as Christ. The Antichrist will demand worship as if he were God.

First of all it must be understood that it is the duty of all Christians - especially of those whose calling dedicates them to the spiritual life - to strive always and in every way to be united with God, their creator, lover, benefactor, and their supreme good, by whom and for whom they were created. This is because the center and the final purpose of the soul, which God created, must be God Himself alone, and nothing else - God from whom the soul has received its life and its nature, and for whom it must eternally live. For all visible things on earth which are lovable and desirable - riches, glory, wife, children, in a word everything of this world that is beautiful, sweet, and attractive - belong not to the soul but only to the body, and being temporary, will pass away as quickly as a shadow. But the soul, being eternal by its nature, can attain eternal than all beauty, sweetness, and loveliness, and He is its natural home, whence it came and whither it must return. For as the flesh coming from the earth returns to the earth, so the soul coming from God returns to God and dwells in Him. For the soul was created by God in order to dwell in Him forever; therefore in this temporary life we must diligently seek union with God, in order to be accounted worthy to be with Him and in Him eternally in the future life.

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

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

Those who have truly decided to serve the Lord God should practice the remembrance of God and uninterrupted prayer to Jesus Christ, mentally saying: Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.

A man who submits to the statutes of the fathers, reaches his goal before he has made a single step.

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