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Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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).

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

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.

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

Patient endurance is the soul's struggle for virtue; where there is struggle for virtue, self-indulgence is banished.

If you have spoken evil of your brother, and you are stricken with remorse, go and kneel down before him and say: 'I have spoken badly of you; let this be my surety that I will not spread this slander any further.' For detraction is death to the soul.

Love and self-control purify the soul.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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