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

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

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

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

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

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

Ascetic exertion, at the personal, family, and parish level, particularly of prayer and fasting, is the characteristic of Orthodoxy.

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

Keep close to Jesus.

Even if an angel should indeed appear to you, do not receive him but humiliate yourself, saying, 'I am not worthy to see an angel, for I am a sinner.'

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

Do not let the sun go down on the anger of your brother (Eph. 4:26); that is, let no one be angry and enraged against his brother until the setting of the sun.

What health and sickness are to the body, virtue and wickedness are to the soul, and knowledge and ignorance to the intellect.

Ascetic exertion, at the personal, family, and parish level, particularly of prayer and fasting, is the characteristic of Orthodoxy.

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

He who has received a gift from God, and is ungrateful for it, is already on the way to losing it.

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

Reading and spiritual knowledge are good, but only when they lead to greater humility.

We ought to learn the virtues through practicing them, not merely through talking about them, so that by acquiring the habit of them we do not forget what is of benefit to us.

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Broadview Heights, Ohio 44147

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