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Quotes

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

The lover of silence draws close to God. He talks to Him in secret and God enlightens him.

A vigilant eye makes the mind pure; but much sleep hardens the soul.

A fish swiftly escapes a hook and a sensual soul shuns solitude.

Meekness is an unchangeable state of mind, which remains the same in honor and dishonor.

Repentance raises the fallen, mourning knocks at the gate of Heaven, and holy humility opens it.

Love and humility form a holy pair; what the first builds, the second binds, thus preventing the building from falling asunder.

If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection.

If you have promised Christ to go by the strait and narrow way, restrain your stomach, because by pleasing it and enlarging it, you break your contract. Attend and you will hear Him who says: 'Spacious and broad is the way of the belly that leads to the perdition of fornication, and many there are who go in by it; because narrow is the gate and strait is the way of fasting that leads to the life of purity, and few there be that find it.'

Some, for the sake of forgiveness, give themselves up to labors and struggles, but a man who is forgetful of wrongs excels them. If you forgive quickly, then you will be generously forgiven.

Stint your stomach and you will certainly lock your mouth, because the tongue is strengthened by an abundance of food. Struggle with all your might against the stomach and restrain it with all sobriety. If you labor a little, the Lord will also soon work with you.

I consider those fallen mourners more blessed than those who have not fallen and are not mourning over themselves; because as a result of their fall, they have risen by a sure resurrection.

Do not be surprised that you fall every day, do not give up, but stand your ground courageously. And assuredly, the angel who guards you will honor your patience. While a wound is still fresh and warm, it is easy to heal; but old, neglected and festering ones are hard to cure, and require for their care much treatment, cutting, plastering and cauterization. Many from long neglect become incurable, but with God all things are possible.

A vigilant monk is a foe to fornication, but a sleepy one is its mate.

The man who pets a lion may tame it, but the man who coddles the body makes it ravenous.

Most of us call ourselves sinners, and perhaps really think it; but it is indignity that tests the heart.

No one in the face of blasphemous thoughts need think that the guilt lies within him, for the Lord is the Knower of hearts, and He is aware that such words and thoughts do not come from us but from our foes.

O, you souls who wish to go on with so much safety and consolation, if you knew how pleasing to God is suffering, and how much it helps in acquiring other good things, you would never seek consolation in anything; but you would rather look upon it as a great happiness to bear the Cross of the Lord.

A servant of the Lord is he who in body stands before men, but in mind knocks at Heaven with prayer.

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