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

An Athonite elder said, 'Blasphemous thoughts are like airplanes that annoy us, against our will, with their noise, and we are powerless to prevent them. The heavy anti-aircraft battery is psalmody, because it is both prayer to Christ and disdain for the devil.'

A mind that dwells on everyday matters of life and vain things disperses the soul. One should turn inwardly, looking at the soul’s uncultivated vineyard, weeding it of all evil thorns and planting virtues there instead. But be wary, for this type of work is not easy at all. It requires perseverance and much patience. One will be confronted with a multitude of difficulties. Various writings of the Fathers are very helpful, and in our days are available by the dozens. In them one can find anything his heart desires, and anything it needs. The Fathers will lead you on the right spiritual path, if only you read them with humility and prayer.

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

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

Spiritual freedom is release from the passions; without Christ’s mercy you cannot attain it.

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.

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

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

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

Patient endurance is the soul's struggle for virtue; where there is struggle for virtue, self-indulgence is banished.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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