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Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love and self-control purify the soul.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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