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Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The present age is temporal. In comparison with the future one it is like a drop in the oceans. So no longer attach your mind to temporal and earthly things, but to the incorruptible and heavenly things. Let us long with our whole soul for heavenly things, and with God's help we shall obtain them. Let your recollections, says Saint Yperechios, be in the Kingdom of Heaven, and you shall quickly inherit it. So please, my brethren, let us not be negligent and drowsy.

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

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

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

Whenever we enter the church and draw near to the heavenly mysteries, we ought to approach with all humility and fear, both because of the presence of the angelic powers and out of the reverence due to the sacred oblation; for as the Angels are said to have stood by the Lord's body when it lay in the tomb, so we must believe that they are present in the celebration of the Mysteries of His most sacred Body at the time of consecration.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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