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

Just as the most bitter medicine drives out poisonous things, so prayer joined to fasting drives evil thoughts away.

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

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

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.

Love and self-control purify the soul.

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

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

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

Love reveals itself in works of mercy.

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

It is the binding duty of every Christian, when he reaches maturity, to know his faith thoroughly.

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

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

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

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

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

Just as the most bitter medicine drives out poisonous things, so prayer joined to fasting drives evil thoughts away.

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

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5025 E. Mill Rd
Broadview Heights, Ohio 44147

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