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Quotes

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

Obedience is to give up one's own judgment but to do it with wise consultation.

Offer to the Lord the weakness of your nature, fully acknowledging your own powerlessness, and imperceptibly you will receive the gift of chastity.

A fish swiftly escapes a hook and a sensual soul shuns solitude.

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

Just as over-drinking is a matter of habit, so too from habit comes over-sleeping. Therefore we must struggle with the question of sleep, especially in the early days of obedience, because a long-standing habit is difficult to cure.

Let your very dress urge you to the work of mourning, because all who lament the dead are dressed in black. If you do not mourn, mourn for this cause. And if you mourn, lament still more that, by your sins, you have brought yourself down from a state free of labors to one of labor.

Meekness is an immovable state of soul which remains unaffected, whether in evil report or in good report, in dishonor or in praise.

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.

A sign of deliverance from our falls is the continual reckoning of ourselves as debtors.

As too many sticks often choke a fire and put it out, while making a lot of smoke, so excessive sorrow often makes the soul smoky and dark, and dries the stream of tears.

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

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

He who has tasted the things on high easily despises what is below. But he who has not tasted the things above finds joy in possessions.

Just as water when it squeezed on all sides shoots up above, so does the soul when it is pressed hard by dangers often rise to God and be saved.

A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of those who have made progress – freedom from anger and patient endurance of injuries; and of the perfect – humility, thirst for dishonors, voluntary craving for involuntary afflictions, non- condemnation of sinners, compassion even beyond one’s strength. The first are acceptable, the second laudable; but blessed are those who hunger for hardship and thirst for dishonor, for they shall be filled with the food whereof there can be no satiety.

Do not go into detail in confessing carnal acts, lest you become a traitor to yourself.

Repentance raises the fallen, mourning knocks at the gate of Heaven, and holy humility opens it.

In the presence of an invisible spirit, the body becomes afraid; but in the presence of an angel, the soul of the humble is filled with joy. Therefore, when we recognize the presence from the effect, let us quickly hasten to prayer, for our good guardian has come to pray with us.

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