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

The person who listens to Christ fills himself with light; and if he imitates Christ, he reclaims himself.

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

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

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

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

If, wishing to correct another, you are moved to anger, you gratify your own passion. Do not lose yourself in order to save another.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Do not neglect the practice of the virtues; if you do, your spiritual knowledge will decrease, and when famine occurs you will go down into Egypt (Genesis 41:57, 46:6).

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

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

Reading the scriptures is a great safeguard against sin.

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