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Quotes

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

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

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

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

If you have a heart, you can be saved.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Go and have pity on all, for through pity, one finds freedom of speech before God.

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

Keep close to Jesus.

The greatest weapons of someone striving to lead a life of inward stillness are self-control, love, prayer, and spiritual reading.

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

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

Make the body serve the commandments, keeping it so far as possible free from sickness and sensual pleasure.

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).

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