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

When you pray fervently, watch, for there will be temptations. This happens to everyone.

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

Batiushka said regarding condemnation and criticism of other’s faults and sins: 'You need to pay such close attention to your own internal life, that you not focus on what is happening around you. Then you will not condemn.'

'If you do not feel like praying, you have to force yourself,' the Elder said. 'The Holy Fathers say that prayer with force is higher than prayer unforced. You do not want to, but force yourself. The Kingdom of Heaven is taken by force.'

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

The intellect becomes a stranger to the things of this world when its attachment to the senses has been completely sundered.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Self-love -- that is, friendship for the body -- is the source of evil in the soul.

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

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).

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

We must observe ourselves closely and miss no opportunity to assist our neighbor.

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

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