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Quotes

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

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.

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

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

Whenever we enter the church and draw near to the heavenly mysteries, we ought to approach with all humility and fear, both because of the presence of the angelic powers and out of the reverence due to the sacred oblation; for as the Angels are said to have stood by the Lord's body when it lay in the tomb, so we must believe that they are present in the celebration of the Mysteries of His most sacred Body at the time of consecration.

Love and self-control purify the soul.

Listlessness is an apathy of soul; and a soul becomes apathetic when sick with self-indulgence.

Struggle until death to fulfill the commandments: purified through them, you will enter into life.

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

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

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.

Abba Or used to say this, 'Do not speak in your heart against your brother like this: 'I am a man of more sober and austere life than he is,' but put yourself in subjection to the grace of Christ, in the spirit of poverty and genuine charity, or you will be overcome by the spirit of vainglory and lose all you have gained. For it is written in the Scriptures: 'Let him who stands take heed lest he fall.' (I Corinthians 10:12) Let your salvation be founded in the Lord.'

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

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

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

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

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

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

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