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

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

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

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

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

Fear of the Lord conquers desire, and distress that accords with God's will repulses sensual pleasure.

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

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).

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

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

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

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

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

Love and self-control purify the soul.

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

‘Wine makes glad the heart of man' (Ps. 104:15). But you who have professed sorrow and grief should turn away from such gladness and rejoice in spiritual gifts. If you rejoice in wine, you will live with shameful thoughts and distress will overwhelm you.

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

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

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

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