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

One must train oneself in generous patience, so as to endure without complaint all that happens to us. We will possess patience when we accept everything that happens to us, both what is joyful and what is sad, without distinction, as from the hand of God.

Pay no attention to praise and fear it; remember what one of the holy fathers says: 'If someone praises you, expect reproaches from him too.'

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

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

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

Make the body serve the commandments, keeping it so far as possible free from sickness and sensual pleasure.

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

Do not be ashamed to reveal your scabs to your spiritual director. Be prepared as well to accept from him disgrace for your sins, so that by being disgraced, you might avoid eternal shame.

When we turn our spirit from the contemplation of God, we become the slaves of carnal passions.

A man may seem to be silent, but if his heart is condemning others, he is babbling ceaselessly. But there may be another who talks from morning till night and yet he is truly silent, that is, he says nothing that is not profitable.

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

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

Let us all run to the Panagia in every circumstance to ask her, to have her as our aid.

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

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

A holy man told us one day, that the source of all heresies and schisms in the church was, loving God too little, and ourselves too much.

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

A holy man told us one day, that the source of all heresies and schisms in the church was, loving God too little, and ourselves too much.

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