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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.'

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A wise man is one who pays attention to himself and is quick to separate himself from all defilement.

Love and self-control purify the soul.

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.

Concern for one's soul means hardship and humility, for through these God forgives us all our sins.

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