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

Strive to love every man equally, and you will simultaneously expel all the passions.

God is visiting you when tears come during prayer.

Long-suffering and readiness to forgive curb anger; love and compassion wither it.

For the washing away of bodily dirtiness God has given water. And for the washing of spiritual foulness, God has given the grace of the holy Sacrament of Confession. Every man, when he dirties his hands, washes them. No one says, 'I will not wash my hands anymore, because I will get them dirty again!' But why is it then that many people say, 'I will not go to Confession, because I will not sin again tomorrow!' It is clear that the enemy of our salvation is enticing us not to wash our souls, so that he can gain power over them.

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

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

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

The grace of God which brings peace and joy to the heart flees from the spiteful.

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

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.

Love giving hospitality, my child, for it opens the gates of Paradise. In this you also offer hospitality to angels. 'Entertain strangers so that you won't be a stranger to God.'

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

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

If you are not willing to repent through freely choosing to suffer, unsought sufferings will providentially be imposed on you.

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

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

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

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