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Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Was there ever anyone of any breeding who dared to speak the name of Holy Mary, and being questioned, did not immediately add, 'the Virgin'? For by such added names the positive proofs of merit are apparent... And to the Holy Mary, Virgin is invariably added, for that Holy Woman remains undefiled.

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

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

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

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

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).

Do you wish God to hear your prayer immediately, brother? When you lift your hands up to heaven, pray first of all, with your heart, for your enemies and God will grant you speedily whatever else you request.

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.

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

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

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