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Quotes

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

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.

Ignorance of the scriptures is a precipice and a deep abyss.

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

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

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

The Antichrist must be understood as spiritual phenomenon..., why will everyone in the world want to bow down to him, obviously it is because there is something in him that responds to something in us, that something being lack of Christ in us, if we will bow down to him (God forbid that we do so) it will be because we feel an attraction to some kind of external thing which might even look like Christianity since Antichrist means the one that is in place of Christ or looks like Christ.

Listlessness is an apathy of soul; and a soul becomes apathetic when sick with self-indulgence.

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

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

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

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

Break the bonds of your friendship for the body and give it only what is absolutely necessary.

Reading the scriptures is a great safeguard against sin.

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

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

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

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

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