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Archangel Michael Logo

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

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

The more a man is found worthy to receive God's gifts, the more he ought to consider himself a debtor to God.

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

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

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

In Christianity truth is not a philosophical concept nor is it a theory, a teaching, or a system, but rather, it is the living theanthropic hypostasis - the historical Jesus Christ (John 14:6). Before Christ men could only conjecture about the Truth since they did not possess it. With Christ as the incarnate divine Logos the eternally complete divine Truth enters into the world. For this reason the Gospel says: 'Truth came by Jesus Christ' (John 1:17).

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

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

I do not dare to ask for relief in any of my battles, even if I am weak and utterly exhausted: for I do not know what is good for me.

Love and self-control purify the soul.

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

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

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

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

A holy man told us one day, that the source of all heresies and schisms in the church was, loving God too little, and ourselves too much.

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

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

Ascetic exertion, at the personal, family, and parish level, particularly of prayer and fasting, is the characteristic of Orthodoxy.

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