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Quotes

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

Virtue is not accounted virtue if it is not accompanied by difficulty and labors.

Do not keep company with the disputatious, lest you be forced to take leave of your calm.

Just as we must beware of overeating, so too we must beware of excessive temperance or abstinence. Excessive temperance weakens the body, destroys wakefulness, coolness and freshness which are indispensable for vigilance, and which fade and weaken when the physical powers succumb and fail. If you force a weak body to labor beyond its powers, you subject your soul to double darkness, and lead it into confusion (and not relief)...

Hold faith and humility fast within you; for through them you will find mercy, help, and words spoken by God in the heart, along with a protector who stands beside you both secretly and manifestly.

Joyfully accept bitter trials, that they may violently shake you for a brief moment, and that afterward you may be sweetened.

Lips that utter frequent thanksgivings shall be blessed by God, and the grateful heart is visited by grace.

Through anger wisdom is lost, so that we no longer know what we are to do, or in what manner we should do it.

Beware of reading the doctrines of heretics for they, more than anything else, can equip the spirit of blasphemy against you.

Fasting is the champion of every virtue, the beginning of the struggle, the crown of the abstinent, the beauty of virginity and sanctity, the resplendence of chastity, the commencement of the path of Christianity, the mother of prayer, the well-spring of sobriety and prudence, the teacher of stillness, and the precursor of all good works. Just as the enjoyment of light is coupled with healthy eyes, so desire for prayer accompanies fasting that is practiced with discernment.

Humility, even without works, can save a man.

How can one say that a man has attained purity? - When he sees all men as being good, and when none appears to him to be unclean and defiled - then he is indeed pure in heart.

Do not disdain those who are handicapped from birth, because all of us will go to the grave equally privileged.

The prayer of one who does not consider himself sinful is not well-pleasing to God.

It is a spiritual gift from God for a man to perceive his sins.

Through anger the brightness of the Holy Spirit is shut out from the soul.

Holy Scripture is presented to the mind’s eye like a mirror in which the appearance of our inner being can be seen.

The iniquitous mouth is stopped during prayer, for the condemnation of the conscience deprives a man of his boldness.

True patience consists in bearing calmly the evils others do to us, and in not being consumed by resentment against those who inflict them. Those who only appear to bear the evils done them by their neighbors, who suffer them in silence while they are looking for an opportunity for revenge, are not practicing patience, but only make a show of it.

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