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

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

Control your stomach, sleep, anger, and tongue, and you will not 'dash your foot against a stone.'

Ignorance of the scriptures is a precipice and a deep abyss.

Spiritual reading and prayer purify the intellect, while love and self-control purify the soul's passionate aspect.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.

Strive with all your might to bring your interior activity into accord with God, and you will overcome exterior passions.

Struggle until death to fulfill the commandments: purified through them, you will enter into life.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The adversary will sit in the temple of Jerusalem, in order to show himself as Christ, he will demand that those who are captivated by him should worship him as Christ. The Antichrist will demand worship as if he were God.

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

Reading the scriptures is a great safeguard against sin.

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.

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

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