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Quotes

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

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

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.

Love and self-control purify the soul.

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

A man is neither saved nor lost by the place he is in, but is saved or lost by his deeds. Neither a holy place nor a holy state is of use to him who does not fulfill the commandments of the Lord.

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

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

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

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

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

Spiritual freedom is release from the passions; without Christ’s mercy you cannot attain it.

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

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

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

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

Whenever we enter the church and draw near to the heavenly mysteries, we ought to approach with all humility and fear, both because of the presence of the angelic powers and out of the reverence due to the sacred oblation; for as the Angels are said to have stood by the Lord's body when it lay in the tomb, so we must believe that they are present in the celebration of the Mysteries of His most sacred Body at the time of consecration.

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

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