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Archangel Michael Logo

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

Reading and spiritual knowledge are good, but only when they lead to greater humility.

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.

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

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

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

Love and self-control purify the soul.

The way of humility is this: self-control, prayer, and thinking yourself inferior to all creatures.

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

The proof of authenticity of the spiritual condition of a father confessor is, that while he is very strict with himself, he is very lenient with others and does not use the canons of the Church like cannons against them.

He who has received a gift from God, and is ungrateful for it, is already on the way to losing it.

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.

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

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

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

You were commanded to keep the body as a servant, not to be unnaturally enslaved to its pleasures.

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

Endurance is like an unshakeable rock in the winds and waves of life. However the tempest batters him, the patient man remains steadfast and does not turn back; and when he finds relief and joy, he is not carried away by self-glory: he is always the same, whether things are hard or easy, and for this reason, he is proof against the snares of the enemy.

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