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Quotes

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

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.

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

The man who follows Christ in solitary mourning is greater than he who praises Christ amid the congregation of men.

A holy man told us one day, that the source of all heresies and schisms in the church was, loving God too little, and ourselves too much.

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

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

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

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

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

Fear of the Lord conquers desire, and distress that accords with God's will repulses sensual pleasure.

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.

He who knows himself pays no heed to the sins of others, but looks at his own and is always repenting over them; he reflects concerning himself, and condemns himself, and does not interfere in anything apart from his own position.

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

Therefore with your whole soul you should acknowledge yourself as worthy of enduring more than you already endure; remember the words which Christ the Savior spoke concerning a good deed done to one’s neighbor, words which should apply equally to every offensive word or deed against one’s neighbor. Whatever you have done to your neighbor, He says, you have done to Me.

A holy man told us one day, that the source of all heresies and schisms in the church was, loving God too little, and ourselves too much.

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

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