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Quotes

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

According to the degree to which the intellect is stripped of the passions, the Holy Spirit initiates the intellect into the mysteries of the age to be.

A wise man is one who pays attention to himself and is quick to separate himself from all defilement.

It is an insult to the intelligence to be subject to what lacks intelligence and to concern itself with shameful desires.

He who fears God will pay careful attention to his soul and will free himself from communion with evil.

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

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

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

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

Very many of those who consider themselves Orthodox are actually Christians only in form, but they live according to their own understanding, complying only with the commands of their flesh. American life, with its satiety and comfort, acts extraordinarily in favor of the acceptance of humanism.

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

He who fears God will pay careful attention to his soul and will free himself from communion with evil.

Struggle until death to fulfill the commandments: purified through them, you will enter into life.

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

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

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

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.

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

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