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Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

The grace of God which brings peace and joy to the heart flees from the spiteful.

For the washing away of bodily dirtiness God has given water. And for the washing of spiritual foulness, God has given the grace of the holy Sacrament of Confession. Every man, when he dirties his hands, washes them. No one says, 'I will not wash my hands anymore, because I will get them dirty again!' But why is it then that many people say, 'I will not go to Confession, because I will not sin again tomorrow!' It is clear that the enemy of our salvation is enticing us not to wash our souls, so that he can gain power over them.

If you lay down rules for yourself, do not disobey yourself; for he who cheats himself is self-deluded.

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.

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

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

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

It is vain that some unenlightened people seek the greatest evil for man somewhere else, rather than in sin. Some consider disease to be the greatest evil, others - poverty, and others - death. But neither disease, nor poverty, nor death, nor any other earthly disaster can be such a great evil for us as sin is. These earthly misfortunes do not separate us from God if we are seeking Him sincerely, but, on the contrary, they bring us closer to Him.

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

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

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.

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