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Quotes

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

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

If you lay down rules for yourself, do not disobey yourself; for he who cheats himself is self-deluded.

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

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

Guard yourselves from soul-destroying heresy, communion with which is alienation from Christ.

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

Keep close to Jesus.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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