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Quotes

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

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.

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

My brother, the passions are afflictions; and so the Lord does not excommunicate us because of them, but He says: 'Call upon me in the time of affliction; and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me'. Therefore, when beset by any kind of passion, there is nothing more useful than to call upon the Name of God. All we can do, weak as we are, is to flee for refuge to the Name of Jesus. For the passions, being demons, retreat if this Name is invoked.

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

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

Give thanks to God for all things, because thanksgiving is intercession before God for our weakness. Judge yourself always and in everything as a sinner and as one seduced - and so God will not judge you; be humble in everything and you will receive grace.

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Listlessness is an apathy of soul; and a soul becomes apathetic when sick with self-indulgence.

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

When you intend to do something and see that your thought is perturbed, and if after invoking God's Name it remains perturbed even by a hair's breadth, know from this that the action you mean to commit is from the evil one and refrain from commiting it. For nothing done with perturbation is pleasing to God.

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

Let us have recourse to humility on all occasions; for the humble lie prone on the ground, and how can a man fall if he lies on the ground? But a man who stands on a height can easily fall.

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Make the body serve the commandments, keeping it so far as possible free from sickness and sensual pleasure.

Silence of the lips is better and more wonderful than any edifying conversation. Our fathers embraced it with reverence and were glorified through it.

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

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

Silence of lips is better and more wonderful than any edifying conversation. Strive to acquire humility and submissiveness. Never insist that anything should be according to your will, for this gives birth to anger. Do not judge or humiliate anyone, for this gives birth to anger. Do not judge or humiliate anyone, for this exhausts the heart and blinds the mind, and thereon leads to negligence and makes the heart unfeeling.

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

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