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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.

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

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

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

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

A wise man is one who pays attention to himself and is quick to separate himself from all defilement.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Listlessness is an apathy of soul; and a soul becomes apathetic when sick with self-indulgence.

Love and self-control purify the soul.

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

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.

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

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