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Quotes

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

Love and self-control purify the soul.

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

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

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

It is an insult to the intelligence to be subject to what lacks intelligence and to concern itself with shameful desires.

He who wishes to purify his faults purifies them with tears, and he who wishes to acquire virtues, acquires them with tears; for weeping is the way the Scriptures and our Fathers give us, when they say 'Weep!' Truly, there is no other way than this.

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.

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

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).

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

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

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

The beginning of evil is heedlessness.

Control your stomach, sleep, anger, and tongue, and you will not 'dash your foot against a stone.'

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

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

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

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