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Quotes

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

Let your very dress urge you to the work of mourning, because all who lament the dead are dressed in black. If you do not mourn, mourn for this cause. And if you mourn, lament still more that, by your sins, you have brought yourself down from a state free of labors to one of labor.

Greater than baptism itself is the fountain of tears after baptism, even though it is somewhat audacious to say so. For baptism is the washing away of evils that were in us before, but sins committed after baptism are washed away by tears. As baptism is received in infancy, we have all defiled it, but we cleanse it anew with tears. And if God in His love for mankind had not given us tears, those being saved would be few indeed and hard to find.

Be concentrated without self-display, withdrawn into your heart. For the demons fear concentration as thieves fear dogs.

People of high spirit bear offence nobly and gladly, but only the holy and righteous can pass through praise without harm.

It is a great work to shake from the soul the praise of men, but to reject the praise of demons is greater.

Love and humility form a holy pair; what the first builds, the second binds, thus preventing the building from falling asunder.

Repentance is the renewal of baptism. Repentance is a contract with God for a second life. A penitent is a buyer of humility. Repentance is constant distrust of bodily comfort. Repentance is self-condemning reflection, and carefree self-care. Repentance is the daughter of hope and the renunciation of despair.

He who has tasted the things on high easily despises what is below. But he who has not tasted the things above finds joy in possessions.

He who has put a stop to anger has also destroyed remembrance of wrongs; because childbirth continues only while the father is alive.

In the hearts of the meek the Lord finds rest, but a turbulent soul is a seat of the devil.

A man who has embraced poverty offers up prayer that is pure, while a man who loves possessions prays to material images.

A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of those who have made progress – freedom from anger and patient endurance of injuries; and of the perfect – humility, thirst for dishonors, voluntary craving for involuntary afflictions, non- condemnation of sinners, compassion even beyond one’s strength. The first are acceptable, the second laudable; but blessed are those who hunger for hardship and thirst for dishonor, for they shall be filled with the food whereof there can be no satiety.

A servant of the Lord is he who in body stands before men, but in mind knocks at Heaven with prayer.

Let us monks, then, be as trustful as the birds are; for they have no cares, neither do they gather into barns.

A man who has embraced poverty offers up prayer that is pure, while a man who loves possessions prays to material images.

A servant of the Lord is he who in body stands before men, but in mind knocks at Heaven with prayer.

Meekness is an unchangeable state of mind, which remains the same in honor and dishonor.

Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing.

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