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

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

If you are not willing to repent through freely choosing to suffer, unsought sufferings will providentially be imposed on you.

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

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

I think that for those living in community obedience is a greater virtue than chastity, however perfect. Chastity carries within it the danger of pride, but obedience has within it the promise of humility.

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.

Do not seek to find the cause of temptations or whence they come; only pray to suffer them with gratitude.

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Control your stomach, sleep, anger, and tongue, and you will not 'dash your foot against a stone.'

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

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

Do not rail against anyone, but rather say ‘God knows each one.’ Do not agree with him who slanders, do not rejoice at his slander and do not hate him who slanders his neighbor. This is what it means not to judge.

Prove your love and zeal for wisdom in actual deeds.

He who wishes to tear up the account of his sins and to be inscribed in the Divine book of the saved, can find for this purpose no better means than obedience.

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If you have a heart, you can be saved.

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

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

If you lay down rules for yourself, do not disobey yourself; for he who cheats himself is self-deluded.

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