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Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

God is visiting you when tears come during prayer.

Cultivate the Jesus Prayer and a time will come when your heart will leap with joy, just as it does when you are about to see a person who you love very much.

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.

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).

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

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

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

Struggle until death to fulfill the commandments: purified through them, you will enter into life.

Just as desire and rage multiply our sins, so self-control and humility erase them.

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.

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

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

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