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Quotes

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

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

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

Often when someone throws a rock at a dog, rather than rushing at the person who threw the stone, the dog will run and bite the stone. We do the same thing. The tempter uses someone else to tempt us, either in word or deed, and, rather than deal with the tempter who threw the stone, we bite the rock, our fellow man that the hater of the good used against us.

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

A wise man is one who pays attention to himself and is quick to separate himself from all defilement.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love giving hospitality, my child, for it opens the gates of Paradise. In this you also offer hospitality to angels. 'Entertain strangers so that you won't be a stranger to God.'

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

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

Concern for one's soul means hardship and humility, for through these God forgives us all our sins.

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

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

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

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