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Archangel Michael Logo

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

It is an insult to the intelligence to be subject to what lacks intelligence and to concern itself with shameful desires.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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