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

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

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

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

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

Keep your mind from malicious thoughts of your neighbors, knowing that such thoughts are hurled by diabolical power, to keep your mind from your own sins and from seeking.

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

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

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

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

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

The mission of the Church is to bring about in her members the conviction that the proper state of human personhood is composed of immortality and eternity and not of the realm of time and mortality... and the conviction that man is a wayfarer who is wending his way in the sway of time and mortality towards immortality and all eternity.

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

He who sufficiently knows and judges himself has no time to judge others.

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

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

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

The person who is unaffected by the things of this world loves stillness; and he who loves no human thing loves all men.

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

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