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Quotes

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

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

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

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

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 passion of self-esteem is a three-pronged barb heated and forged by the demons out of vanity, presumption and arrogance. Yet those who dwell under the protection of the God of heaven (cf. Ps. 91.1) detect it easily and shatter its prongs, for through their humility they rise above such vices and find repose in the tree of life.

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

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

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

Reading the scriptures is a great safeguard against sin.

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

The person who listens to Christ fills himself with light; and if he imitates Christ, he reclaims himself.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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