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Quotes

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

You were commanded to keep the body as a servant, not to be unnaturally enslaved to its pleasures.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The intellect becomes a stranger to the things of this world when its attachment to the senses has been completely sundered.

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

Do not neglect the practice of the virtues; if you do, your spiritual knowledge will decrease, and when famine occurs you will go down into Egypt (Genesis 41:57, 46:6).

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

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

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

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

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

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

Long-suffering and readiness to forgive curb anger; love and compassion wither it.

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

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