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Quotes

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

If, wishing to correct another, you are moved to anger, you gratify your own passion. Do not lose yourself in order to save another.

He who fears God will pay careful attention to his soul and will free himself from communion with evil.

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

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

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

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

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

Whenever we enter the church and draw near to the heavenly mysteries, we ought to approach with all humility and fear, both because of the presence of the angelic powers and out of the reverence due to the sacred oblation; for as the Angels are said to have stood by the Lord's body when it lay in the tomb, so we must believe that they are present in the celebration of the Mysteries of His most sacred Body at the time of consecration.

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.

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

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

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

If you are not willing to repent through freely choosing to suffer, unsought sufferings will providentially be imposed on you.

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

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).

He who fears God will pay careful attention to his soul and will free himself from communion with evil.

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

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

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