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Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

The greatest weapons of someone striving to lead a life of inward stillness are self-control, love, prayer, and spiritual reading.

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

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

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

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

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

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.'

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

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

In the beginning, there is struggle and a lot of work for those who come near to God. But after that, there is indescribable joy. It is just like building a fire: at first it's smoky and your eyes water, but later you get the desired result. Thus we ought to light the divine fire in ourselves with tears and effort.

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

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