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Quotes

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

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

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

If you are not willing to repent through freely choosing to suffer, unsought sufferings will providentially be imposed on you.

Long-suffering and readiness to forgive curb anger; love and compassion wither it.

The study of divine principles teaches knowledge of God to the person who lives in truth, longing and reverence.

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

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

The greatest weapons of someone striving to lead a life of inward stillness are self-control, love, prayer, and spiritual reading.

No Christian believing rightly in God should ever be off his guard. He should always be on the look-out for temptation, so that when it comes he will not be surprised or disturbed, but will gladly endure the toil and affliction it causes, and so will understand what he is saying when he chants with the prophet: 'Prove me, O Lord, and try me' (Ps. 26:2 LXX). For the prophet did not say, 'Thy correction has destroyed me,' but, 'it has upheld me to the end' (Ps. 18:35 LXX).

It is an insult to the intelligence to be subject to what lacks intelligence and to concern itself with shameful desires.

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

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

All sin is due to sensual pleasure, all forgiveness to hardship and distress.

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

The intellect becomes a stranger to the things of this world when its attachment to the senses has been completely sundered.

Make the body serve the commandments, keeping it so far as possible free from sickness and sensual pleasure.

According to the degree to which the intellect is stripped of the passions, the Holy Spirit initiates the intellect into the mysteries of the age to be.

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

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