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

Patience increases obedience to the Divine words that have been written, are being written, and will be written.

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

Self-accusation before God is something that is very necessary for us; and humility of heart is extremely advantageous in our lives, above all at the time of prayer. For prayer requires great attention and needs a proper awareness, otherwise it will turn out to be unacceptable and rejected, and `it will be turned back empty' to our bosom.

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

If you lay down rules for yourself, do not disobey yourself; for he who cheats himself is self-deluded.

Spiritual reading and prayer purify the intellect, while love and self-control purify the soul's passionate aspect.

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.

Patience increases when a person takes in account god.

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Love and self-control purify the soul.

Above all pray for the gift of tears...

For weeping delivers us from eternal fire and other future punishments, so the Fathers say.

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

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

We must resist and avoid like deadly poison the desire to possess earthly goods.

Patience must grow and not diminish, because when it diminishes sin increases in the life of man, evil results.

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You were commanded to keep the body as a servant, not to be unnaturally enslaved to its pleasures.

Such tears should be preserved... because they have great power and action in destroying and uprooting sins and passions.

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

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