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Quotes

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

The person who is unaffected by the things of this world loves stillness; and he who loves no human thing loves all men.

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

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).

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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