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Quotes

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

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

A wise man is one who pays attention to himself and is quick to separate himself from all defilement.

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

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

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.

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

Four monks of Scetis, clothed in skins, came one day to see the great Pambo. Each one revealed the virtue of his neighbor. The first fasted a great deal; the second was poor; the third had acquired great charity; and they said of the fourth that he had lived for twenty-two years in obedience to an old man. Abba Pambo said to them, 'I tell you, the virtue of this last one is the greatest. Each of the others has obtained the virtue he wished to acquire; but the last one, restraining his own will, does the will of another. Now it is of such men that the martyrs are made, if they persevere to the end.'

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

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

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

Love and self-control purify the soul.

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

If, wishing to correct another, you are moved to anger, you gratify your own passion. Do not lose yourself in order to save another.

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

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

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

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

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