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

Spiritual reading and prayer purify the intellect, while love and self-control purify the soul's passionate aspect.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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).

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

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

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

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

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

We are sons of God or of Satan according to whether we conform to goodness or to evil.

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

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5025 E. Mill Rd
Broadview Heights, Ohio 44147

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