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Quotes

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

A holy man told us one day, that the source of all heresies and schisms in the church was, loving God too little, and ourselves too much.

Break the bonds of your friendship for the body and give it only what is absolutely necessary.

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

Just as desire and rage multiply our sins, so self-control and humility erase them.

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

The soul's health consists in dispassion and spiritual knowledge; no slave to sensual pleasure can 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 are not willing to repent through freely choosing to suffer, unsought sufferings will providentially be imposed on you.

A holy man told us one day, that the source of all heresies and schisms in the church was, loving God too little, and ourselves too much.

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

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

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

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

Self-love -- that is, friendship for the body -- is the source of evil in the soul.

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

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

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

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

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