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

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

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

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

Keep the commandments, and you will find peace; love God, and you will attain spiritual knowledge.

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

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

Hospitality... the greatest of virtues. It draws the grace of the Holy Spirit towards us. In every stranger's face, my child, I see Christ himself.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Orthodoxy is life; one cannot talk about it, one must live it.

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

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

He who fears God will pay careful attention to his soul and will free himself from communion with evil.

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