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Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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

A man is neither saved nor lost by the place he is in, but is saved or lost by his deeds. Neither a holy place nor a holy state is of use to him who does not fulfill the commandments of the Lord.

The person who listens to Christ fills himself with light; and if he imitates Christ, he reclaims himself.

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

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

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

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

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

Worldly virtues promote human glory, spiritual virtues the glory of God.

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

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.

Concern for one's soul means hardship and humility, for through these God forgives us all our sins.

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

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