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Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love and self-control purify the soul.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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