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Quotes

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

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

Love and self-control purify the soul.

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

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

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

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

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.'

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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