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Quotes

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

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

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

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

Love and self-control purify the soul.

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

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

Make the body serve the commandments, keeping it so far as possible free from sickness and sensual pleasure.

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

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

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

Patient endurance is the soul's struggle for virtue; where there is struggle for virtue, self-indulgence is banished.

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

One of the Fathers said: just as it is impossible for a man to see his face in troubled water, so too the soul, unless it be cleansed of alien thoughts, cannot pray to God in contemplation.

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.

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

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

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

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