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Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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