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Quotes

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

Make the body serve the commandments, keeping it so far as possible free from sickness and sensual pleasure.

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.

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

Keep the commandments, and you will find peace; love God, and you will attain spiritual knowledge.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We are sons of God or of Satan according to whether we conform to goodness or to evil.

He who fears God will pay careful attention to his soul and will free himself from communion with evil.

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

Was there ever anyone of any breeding who dared to speak the name of Holy Mary, and being questioned, did not immediately add, 'the Virgin'? For by such added names the positive proofs of merit are apparent... And to the Holy Mary, Virgin is invariably added, for that Holy Woman remains undefiled.

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