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Quotes

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

Keep close to Jesus.

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

Fear of the Lord conquers desire, and distress that accords with God's will repulses sensual pleasure.

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

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

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

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

Listlessness is an apathy of soul; and a soul becomes apathetic when sick with self-indulgence.

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

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

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

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

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

Self-control and strenuous effort curb desire; stillness and intense longing for God wither it.

Love and self-control purify the soul.

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

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

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

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