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Quotes

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

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

All sin is due to sensual pleasure, all forgiveness to hardship and distress.

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

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

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

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

According to the degree to which the intellect is stripped of the passions, the Holy Spirit initiates the intellect into the mysteries of the age to be.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Worldly virtues promote human glory, spiritual virtues the glory of God.

Struggle until death to fulfill the commandments: purified through them, you will enter into life.

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

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

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