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

Live simply and God will not leave you...

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

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

The evil one cannot comprehend the joy we receive from the spiritual life; for this reason he is jealous of us, he envies us and sets traps for us, and we become grieved and fall. We must struggle, because without struggles we do not obtain virtues.

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

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

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

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

Love and self-control purify the soul.

Self-love -- that is, friendship for the body -- is the source of evil in the soul.

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.

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

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

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

Keep the body properly slim so that you reduce the burden of the heart's warfare, with full benefit to yourself.

If you are not willing to repent through freely choosing to suffer, unsought sufferings will providentially be imposed on you.

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

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