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

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

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

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

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

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

Love and self-control purify the soul.

One must train oneself in generous patience, so as to endure without complaint all that happens to us. We will possess patience when we accept everything that happens to us, both what is joyful and what is sad, without distinction, as from the hand of God.

A holy man told us one day, that the source of all heresies and schisms in the church was, loving God too little, and ourselves too much.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pray before your body takes rest on your bed... If you are tempted, make the Sign (of the Cross) on your forehead reverently… for this is a known and tested weapon against the Devil.

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

Pay no attention to praise and fear it; remember what one of the holy fathers says: 'If someone praises you, expect reproaches from him too.'

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Archangel Michael Orthodox Church
5025 E. Mill Rd
Broadview Heights, Ohio 44147

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