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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is an insult to the intelligence to be subject to what lacks intelligence and to concern itself with shameful desires.

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

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

A holy man told us one day, that the source of all heresies and schisms in the church was, loving God too little, and ourselves too much.

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

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.

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

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

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

Love and self-control purify the soul.

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