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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Let not us who would be Christians expect anything else than to be crucified...for to be Christian is to be crucified in this time and in any time since Christ came for the first time. His life is the example and warning to us all. We must be crucified personally, mystically; for through crucifixion is the only path to resurrection, if we would rise with Christ, we must be humbled with him even to the ultimate humiliation, being devoured and spit forth by the uncomprehending world...we must be crucified outwardly in the eyes of the world, for Christ’s kingdom is not of this world and the world cannot bear it, even a single representative, even for the single moment. The world can only accept Antichrist now or at any time.

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

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

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

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.

Keep your mind from malicious thoughts of your neighbors, knowing that such thoughts are hurled by diabolical power, to keep your mind from your own sins and from seeking.

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

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

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