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

Increasing self-criticism is the sign of increasing humility. Indeed, there is no clearer sign.

Repentance raises the fallen, mourning knocks at the gate of Heaven, and holy humility opens it.

If you have promised Christ to go by the strait and narrow way, restrain your stomach, because by pleasing it and enlarging it, you break your contract. Attend and you will hear Him who says: 'Spacious and broad is the way of the belly that leads to the perdition of fornication, and many there are who go in by it; because narrow is the gate and strait is the way of fasting that leads to the life of purity, and few there be that find it.'

As too many sticks often choke a fire and put it out, while making a lot of smoke, so excessive sorrow often makes the soul smoky and dark, and dries the stream of tears.

People of high spirit bear offence nobly and gladly, but only the holy and righteous can pass through praise without harm.

Meekness is the fellow-worker of obedience, the guide of the brotherhood, a bridle for the enraged, a check to the irritable, a minister of joy, the imitation of Christ, something proper to angels, shackles for demons, a shield against bitterness.

A man who has embraced poverty offers up prayer that is pure, while a man who loves possessions prays to material images.

Blessed is he who, though maligned and disparaged every day for the Lord's sake, constrains himself to be patient. He will join the chorus of the martyrs, and boldly converse with the angels.

A vigilant eye makes the mind pure; but much sleep hardens the soul.

It seems to me that, in all cases when indignity is offered to us, we should be silent; for it is our moment of profit.

Satiety of the stomach dries the tear sprints, but the stomach when dried produces these waters.

Control your appetites before they control you.

As a ray of sun, passing through a crack, lights everything in the house and shows up even the finest dust, so the fear of the Lord, entering a man's heart, reveals to him all his sins.

Love, by its nature, is a resemblance to God, insofar as this is humanly possible. In its activity it is inebriation of the soul. Its distinctive character is to be a fountain of faith, an abyss of patience, a sea of humility.

A fish swiftly escapes a hook and a sensual soul shuns solitude.

Lying is wiped out by the tortures of superiors; but it is finally destroyed by an abundance of tears.

As long as the flesh is in full health, let us observe abstinence at all times and in every place. When it has been tamed (which I do not suppose is possible this side of the grave), then let us hide our accomplishment.

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A dog is better than I am, for he has love and he does not judge.

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