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Quotes

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

The person who listens to Christ fills himself with light; and if he imitates Christ, he reclaims himself.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Keep the commandments, and you will find peace; love God, and you will attain spiritual knowledge.

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

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

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

Ascetic exertion, at the personal, family, and parish level, particularly of prayer and fasting, is the characteristic of Orthodoxy.

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

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

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

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).

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

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

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