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Quotes

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

A fish swiftly escapes a hook and a sensual soul shuns solitude.

Do not regard the feelings of a person who speaks to you about his neighbor disparagingly, but rather say to him: 'Stop, brother! I fall into graver sins every day, so how can I criticize him?' In this way you will achieve two things: you will heal yourself and your neighbor with one plaster. This is one of the shortest ways to the forgiveness of sins; I mean, not to judge. 'Judge not, and ye shall not be judged,' (Luke 6:37).

Just as over-drinking is a matter of habit, so too from habit comes over-sleeping. Therefore we must struggle with the question of sleep, especially in the early days of obedience, because a long-standing habit is difficult to cure.

Be concentrated without self-display, withdrawn into your heart. For the demons fear concentration as thieves fear dogs.

Meekness consists in praying calmly and sincerely for a neighbor when he causes many turmoils.

A man who has embraced poverty offers up prayer that is pure, while a man who loves possessions prays to material images.

A vigilant eye makes the mind pure; but much sleep hardens the soul.

Most of us call ourselves sinners, and perhaps really think it; but it is indignity that tests the heart.

Love and humility form a holy pair; what the first builds, the second binds, thus preventing the building from falling asunder.

He who has become aware of his sins has controlled his tongue, but a talkative person has not yet come to know himself as he should.

A little fire softens a large piece of wax. So, too, a small indignity often softens, sweetens and wipes away suddenly all the fierceness, insensibility & hardness of our heart.

Self-knowledge is a true idea of one's spiritual growth, and an unbroken remembrance of one's slightest sins.

A man who has embraced poverty offers up prayer that is pure, while a man who loves possessions prays to material images.

Do not trust that because of abstinence you will not fall. One who had never eaten was cast from Heaven.

The fathers have laid down that psalmody is a weapon, and prayer is a wall, and honest tears are a bath; but blessed obedience in their judgment is confession of faith, without which no one subject to the passions will see the Lord.

Those who mourn and those who are insensitive are not subject to fear, but the cowardly often have become deranged. And this is natural. For the Lord rightly forsakes the proud that the rest of us may learn not to be puffed up.

Wrath is a reminder of hidden hatred, that is to say, remembrance of wrongs. Wrath is a desire for the injury of the one who has provoked you. Irascibility is the untimely blazing up of the heart. Bitterness is a movement of displeasure seated in the soul. Anger is an easily changeable movement of one’s disposition and disfiguration of soul.

A vigilant monk is a foe to fornication, but a sleepy one is its mate.

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