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Quotes

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

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.

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

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

Long-suffering and readiness to forgive curb anger; love and compassion wither it.

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

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

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

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

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

Love and self-control purify the soul.

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

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

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

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

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

Break the bonds of your friendship for the body and give it only what is absolutely necessary.

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

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