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Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Make the body serve the commandments, keeping it so far as possible free from sickness and sensual pleasure.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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