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Quotes

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

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

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

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

Just as desire and rage multiply our sins, so self-control and humility erase them.

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

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

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

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

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

When we turn our spirit from the contemplation of God, we become the slaves of carnal passions.

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

Just as desire and rage multiply our sins, so self-control and humility erase them.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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