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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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).

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

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

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

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

Worldly virtues promote human glory, spiritual virtues the glory of God.

A monk is he who wants to sleep and does not sleep, who wants to eat and does not eat, who wants to drink and does not drink. A monk is distinguished by ‘continual forcing of nature.’

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

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

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

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

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5025 E. Mill Rd
Broadview Heights, Ohio 44147

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