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Quotes

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

My children, desire to purify your hearts from envy and from anger with each other, lest death should overcome you, and you will be counted among the murderers. For whosoever hates his brother, kills a soul.

Beware of the counsels of the evil one, if he should come in the guise of one professing truth to beguile you and lead you into deceit. Even if he should come to you as an angel of light, do not believe him or obey him: for he is apt to fascinate the faithful by the attractive semblance of truth.

If they are worthy, ordinary people and ascetics are provided through circumstances of their life with the opportunities to be crowned by God.

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

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

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

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

The time is coming when people will be insane, and when they see someone who is not insane, they will attack him saying 'You are insane because you are not like us.'

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Concern for one's soul means hardship and humility, for through these God forgives us all our sins.

When you close the doors to your dwelling and are alone you should know that there is present with you the angel whom God has appointed for each man...This angel, who is sleepless and cannot be deceived, is always present with you; he sees all things and is not hindered by darkness. You should know, too, that with him is God, who is in every place; for there is no place and nothing material in which God is not, since He is greater than all things and holds all men in His hand.

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

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