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Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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