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

The study of divine principles teaches knowledge of God to the person who lives in truth, longing and reverence.

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

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

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

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

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

Self-love -- that is, friendship for the body -- is the source of evil in the soul.

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

To those who would fain stand, neither the guardianship of saints nor the defences of angels are wanting.

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

When someone is beginning the spiritual life, he should not study a lot, but instead watch himself and guard his thoughts. A strong person is the one who chews well, not the one who eats a lot.

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

The greatest weapons of someone striving to lead a life of inward stillness are self-control, love, prayer, and spiritual reading.

Break the bonds of your friendship for the body and give it only what is absolutely necessary.

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

Please put this commandment into practice. Cultivate love towards the Person of Christ to such an extent that, when you pronounce His name, tears fall from your eyes. Your heart must really burn. Then He will become your teacher. He will be your Guide, your Brother, your Father, and your Elder.

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

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

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