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Quotes

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

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

According to the degree to which the intellect is stripped of the passions, the Holy Spirit initiates the intellect into the mysteries of the age to be.

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

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

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

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

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

Break the bonds of your friendship for the body and give it only what is absolutely necessary.

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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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