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Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Do not neglect the practice of the virtues; if you do, your spiritual knowledge will decrease, and when famine occurs you will go down into Egypt (Genesis 41:57, 46:6).

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

Love and self-control purify the soul.

Listlessness is an apathy of soul; and a soul becomes apathetic when sick with self-indulgence.

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

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

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

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

I suppose that it is sometimes better to fall oneself and rise, than to judge one's neighbor; because one who has sinned is incited to self-abasement and repentance, while he who judges one who has sinned becomes hardened in an illusion about himself and in pride. Therefore everyone must guard himself, as much as possible, so as not to judge.

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

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

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

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