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Quotes

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

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

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

Self-love -- that is, friendship for the body -- is the source of evil in the soul.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Cultivate the Jesus Prayer and a time will come when your heart will leap with joy, just as it does when you are about to see a person who you love very much.

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

If, wishing to correct another, you are moved to anger, you gratify your own passion. Do not lose yourself in order to save another.

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

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

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

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

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.'

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