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Quotes

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

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

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

We are sons of God or of Satan according to whether we conform to goodness or to evil.

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.

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.

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.

If we keep remembering the wrongs which men have done us, we destroy the power of the remembrance of God.

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

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.

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

Unless humility and love, simplicity and goodness regulate our prayer, this prayer - or, rather, this pretence of prayer - cannot profit us at all. And this applies not only to prayer, but to every labor and hardship undertaken for the sake of virtue.

Self-love -- that is, friendship for the body -- is the source of evil in the soul.

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

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

The soul that really loves God and Christ, though it may do ten thousand righteousnesses, esteems itself as having wrought nothing, by reason of its insatiable aspiration after God. Though it should exhaust the body with fastings, with watchings, its attitude towards the virtues is as if it had not even begun to labor for them.

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