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Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A holy man told us one day, that the source of all heresies and schisms in the church was, loving God too little, and ourselves too much.

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

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

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

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

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

The intellect becomes a stranger to the things of this world when its attachment to the senses has been completely sundered.

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

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.

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