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Quotes

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

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

The person who listens to Christ fills himself with light; and if he imitates Christ, he reclaims himself.

Love and self-control purify the soul.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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