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

As galloping horses race one another, so a good community excites mutual fervor.

If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection.

Be concentrated without self-display, withdrawn into your heart. For the demons fear concentration as thieves fear dogs.

Was there ever anyone of any breeding who dared to speak the name of Holy Mary, and being questioned, did not immediately add, 'the Virgin'? For by such added names the positive proofs of merit are apparent... And to the Holy Mary, Virgin is invariably added, for that Holy Woman remains undefiled.

A little fire softens a large piece of wax. So, too, a small indignity often softens, sweetens and wipes away suddenly all the fierceness, insensibility and hardness of our heart.

He who has put a stop to anger has also destroyed remembrance of wrongs; because childbirth continues only while the father is alive.

He who has become aware of his sins has controlled his tongue, but a talkative person has not yet come to know himself as he should.

Meekness consists in praying calmly and sincerely for a neighbor when he causes many turmoils.

He who refuses to accept a criticism, just or not, renounces his own salvation, while he who accepts it, hard or not though it may be, will soon have his sins forgiven.

Do not condemn, even if you see with your eyes, for they are often deceived.

Patience is an unbroken labor of the soul which is never shaken by deserved or undeserved blows.

If a person swallows too much food, he is inviting impure thoughts. If he mortifies the stomach, he is creating pure thoughts. Often a lion if it is caressed becomes domesticated, whereas the more you coddle the body, the more it goes wild.

Self-knowledge is a true idea of one's spiritual growth, and an unbroken remembrance of one's slightest sins.

Some people living carelessly in the world have asked me: 'We have wives and are beset with social cares, and how can we lead the solitary life?' I replied to them: 'Do all the good you can; do not speak evil of anyone; do not steal from anyone; do not hate anyone; do not be absent from Divine services; do not offend anyone; do not wreck another man's domestic happiness, and be content with what your own wives can give you. If you behave in this way, you will not be far from the Kingdom of Heaven.'

He who really keeps account of his actions considers as lost every day in which he does not mourn, whatever good he may have done in it.

Do not be surprised that you fall every day, do not give up, but stand your ground courageously. And assuredly, the angel who guards you will honor your patience. While a wound is still fresh and warm, it is easy to heal; but old, neglected and festering ones are hard to cure, and require for their care much treatment, cutting, plastering and cauterization. Many from long neglect become incurable, but with God all things are possible.

A man who has embraced poverty offers up prayer that is pure, while a man who loves possessions prays to material images.

Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing.

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