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

If you are not willing to repent through freely choosing to suffer, unsought sufferings will providentially be imposed on you.

If you abandon God and are a slave to the passions, you cannot reap God's mercy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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).

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

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.

You were commanded to keep the body as a servant, not to be unnaturally enslaved to its pleasures.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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