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Quotes

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

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

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

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

Let not us who would be Christians expect anything else than to be crucified...for to be Christian is to be crucified in this time and in any time since Christ came for the first time. His life is the example and warning to us all. We must be crucified personally, mystically; for through crucifixion is the only path to resurrection, if we would rise with Christ, we must be humbled with him even to the ultimate humiliation, being devoured and spit forth by the uncomprehending world...we must be crucified outwardly in the eyes of the world, for Christ’s kingdom is not of this world and the world cannot bear it, even a single representative, even for the single moment. The world can only accept Antichrist now or at any time.

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

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

Love and self-control purify the soul.

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

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

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

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).

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

Control your stomach, sleep, anger, and tongue, and you will not 'dash your foot against a stone.'

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

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

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

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

The person who is unaffected by the things of this world loves stillness; and he who loves no human thing loves all men.

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