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

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

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

Keep the commandments, and you will find peace; love God, and you will attain spiritual knowledge.

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

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

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

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

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).

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

Spiritual reading and prayer purify the intellect, while love and self-control purify the soul's passionate aspect.

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

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

Let us be mutually mindful of each other, let us ever pray for each other, and if one of us shall, by the speediness of the Divine vouchsafement, depart hence first, let our love continue in the presence of the Lord, let not prayer for our brethren and sisters cease in the presence of the mercy of the Father.

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

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

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

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

The person who is unaffected by the things of this world loves stillness; and he who loves no human thing loves all men.

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5025 E. Mill Rd
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