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Quotes

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

Fear of the Lord conquers desire, and distress that accords with God's will repulses sensual pleasure.

Do not neglect the practice of the virtues; if you do, your spiritual knowledge will decrease, and when famine occurs you will go down into Egypt (Genesis 41:57, 46:6).

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.

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

Long-suffering and readiness to forgive curb anger; love and compassion wither it.

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

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.

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

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

If you are not willing to repent through freely choosing to suffer, unsought sufferings will providentially be imposed on you.

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

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

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

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.

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

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