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

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

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

The evil one cannot comprehend the joy we receive from the spiritual life; for this reason he is jealous of us, he envies us and sets traps for us, and we become grieved and fall. We must struggle, because without struggles we do not obtain virtues.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Love and self-control purify the soul.

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

Keep the body properly slim so that you reduce the burden of the heart's warfare, with full benefit to yourself.

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

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

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