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Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

If you lay down rules for yourself, do not disobey yourself; for he who cheats himself is self-deluded.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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