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Quotes

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

Love sinners, but hate their works; and do not despise them for their faults, lest you be tempted by the same trespasses.

If you have no works, do not speak on virtues. Afflictions suffered for the Lord's sake are more precious to Him than every vow and sacrifice; and the odor of their sweet surpasses every fragrance.

Understand what I say: there can be no knowledge of the mysteries of God on a full stomach.

Love of God proceeds from conversing with him; this conversation of prayer comes about through stillness, and stillness comes with the stripping away of the self.

Love the poor, and through them you will find mercy.

What salt is for any food, humility is for every virtue. To acquire it, a man must always think of himself with contrition, self-belittlement and painful salf-judgment. But if we acquire it, it will make us sons of God.

Beware of reading the doctrines of heretics for they, more than anything else, can equip the spirit of blasphemy against you.

When I wish to open my mouth and to speak on the exalted theme of humility, I am filled with dread, like someone who is aware that he is about to discourse with his own imperfect words concerning God.

On that day God will not judge us about psalmody, nor for the neglect of prayer, but because by abandoning them, we have opened our door to the demons.

Not every man is wakened to wonder by what is said spiritually and has great power concealed in it. A word concerning virtue has need of a heart unbusied with the earth and its converse.

How can one say that a man has attained purity? - When he sees all men as being good, and when none appears to him to be unclean and defiled - then he is indeed pure in heart.

Understand what I say: there can be no knowledge of the mysteries of God on a full stomach.

As soon as a man becomes humble, mercy is not slow to envelop him. Then the heart is aware of God’s help, and acquires a certain power of assurance (in God) which arises in it. And when a man is aware that God’s help is actually assisting him, his heart becomes filled with faith in very truth.

Flee from discussions of dogma as from an unruly lion; and never embark upon them yourself, either with those raised in the Church, or with strangers.

The man who follows Christ in solitary mourning is greater than he who praises Christ amid the congregation of men.

Virtues are connected with suffering. He who flees suffering is sure to be parted from virtue.

Virtue is not accounted virtue if it is not accompanied by difficulty and labors.

Sweet to the laborer is bread earned by his own sweat. Until a man has sweated, the bread of truth will not satisfy him.

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