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Quotes

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

Prayer is the seed of gentleness and the absence of anger.

A book is not the substance and essence of knowledge: it is one of the means of arriving at it.

Rejoice when you perform the virtues, but do not become exalted, lest, arriving at the pier, you suffer a shipwreck.

Let the debtor who owed ten thousand talents teach you that if you do not forgive your debtor you will not be forgiven...

The arrows of the enemy cannot touch one who loves quietness; but he who moves about in a crowd will often be wounded.

When it is needful that a person be humbled, then not only the Superior, the sisters, strangers and near ones, but even all creation, according to the words of St. Isaac the Syrian, will rise up against that person.

To master any art requires time and much instruction; can the art of arts alone be mastered without being learnt?

Pray firstly to be purified of passions, secondly to be freed from ignorance and forgetfulness, and thirdly to be delivered from all temptation and forsaking.

Prayer demands that the mind should be pure of all thought and should admit nothing not belonging to prayer, even if it were good in itself. As if inspired by God the mind should withdraw from all things and hold its converse with Him alone.

A mind from which the thought of God has been carried away and which has thus become far removed from remembering Him, is also indifferent to sin with the outer senses. For such a mind can guide neither the hearing nor the tongue, since zest to work on itself has gone out of it.

Do not shun poverty and afflictions, these wings of buoyant prayer.

Do not be always wanting everything to turn out as you think it should, but rather as God pleases; then you will be undisturbed and thankful in your prayer.

Prayer is a remedy against grief and depression.

Go, sell all that belongs to you and give it to the poor and taking up the cross, deny yourself; in this way you will be able to pray without distraction.

When you shed floods of tears during prayer, do not exalt yourself for this, as though you were above many others. It is that your prayer has received help from above, so that, having zealously confessed your sins, you may incline the almighty to mercy by your tears.

Undistracted prayer is the highest doing of the mind.

If you want to pray properly, do not let yourself be upset or you will run in vain.

He who endures distress, will be granted joys; and he who bears with unpleasant things, will not be deprived of the pleasant.

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