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Quotes

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

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

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

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

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A dog is better than I am, for he has love and he does not judge.

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

No Christian believing rightly in God should ever be off his guard. He should always be on the look-out for temptation, so that when it comes he will not be surprised or disturbed, but will gladly endure the toil and affliction it causes, and so will understand what he is saying when he chants with the prophet: 'Prove me, O Lord, and try me' (Ps. 26:2 LXX). For the prophet did not say, 'Thy correction has destroyed me,' but, 'it has upheld me to the end' (Ps. 18:35 LXX).

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

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

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

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

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

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).

Apt silence bridles anger.

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

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

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.

A haughty person is not aware of his faults, or a humble person of his good qualities. An evil ignorance blinds the first, an ignorance pleasing to God blinds the second.

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

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