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Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

Was there ever anyone of any breeding who dared to speak the name of Holy Mary, and being questioned, did not immediately add, 'the Virgin'? For by such added names the positive proofs of merit are apparent... And to the Holy Mary, Virgin is invariably added, for that Holy Woman remains undefiled.

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

Reading the scriptures is a great safeguard against sin.

Strive to love every man equally, and you will simultaneously expel all the passions.

The greatest weapons of someone striving to lead a life of inward stillness are self-control, love, prayer, and spiritual reading.

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

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

You were commanded to keep the body as a servant, not to be unnaturally enslaved to its pleasures.

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

Patient endurance is the soul's struggle for virtue; where there is struggle for virtue, self-indulgence is banished.

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

Spiritual freedom is release from the passions; without Christ’s mercy you cannot attain it.

The person who listens to Christ fills himself with light; and if he imitates Christ, he reclaims himself.

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