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Archangel Michael Logo

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

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

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

Apt silence bridles anger.

The intellect becomes a stranger to the things of this world when its attachment to the senses has been completely sundered.

Only a few receive power and wisdom from God. For wisdom is to share in Divine blessings, and power is to show them.

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

In the future, a man shall have the degree of deification corresponding to his present perfection in spiritual stature.

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

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

Control your stomach, sleep, anger, and tongue, and you will not 'dash your foot against a stone.'

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

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

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

Apt silence bridles anger.

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

With the Name of Jesus flog the foes, for there is no surer weapon against them, either on earth or in heaven.

The principle and source of the virtues is a good disposition of the will, that is to say, an aspiration for goodness and beauty. God is the source and ground of all supernal goodness. Thus the principle of goodness and beauty is faith or, rather, it is Christ, the rock of faith, Who is the principle and foundation of all the virtues. On this rock we stand and on this foundation we build every good thing.

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

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