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

Do not neglect the practice of the virtues; if you do, your spiritual knowledge will decrease, and when famine occurs you will go down into Egypt (Genesis 41:57, 46:6).

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

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

Love and self-control purify the soul.

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

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

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

Cultivate the Jesus Prayer and a time will come when your heart will leap with joy, just as it does when you are about to see a person who you love very much.

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

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.

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

Hospitality... the greatest of virtues. It draws the grace of the Holy Spirit towards us. In every stranger's face, my child, I see Christ himself.

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

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

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

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

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.

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5025 E. Mill Rd
Broadview Heights, Ohio 44147

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