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Quotes

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

Do not allow human respect to get in your way when you hear someone slandering his neighbor. Instead, say to him, 'Brother, stop it! I do worse things every day, so how can I criticize him?' You accomplish two things when you say this. You heal yourself and you heal your neighbor with one bandage.

Let the love of your fellow man rise above the promptings of self love.

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

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

The beginning of the mortification both of the soul’s desire and of the bodily members is much hard work. The middle is sometimes laborious and sometimes not laborious. But the end is insensibility and insusceptibility to toil and pain. Only when he sees himself doing his own will does this blessed living corpse feel sorry and sick at heart; and he fears the responsibility of using his own judgment.

He who has obtained the fear of the Lord has forsaken lying, having within himself an incorruptible judge – his own conscience.

It is an insult to the intelligence to be subject to what lacks intelligence and to concern itself with shameful desires.

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

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

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

Our good Redeemer, by speedily granting what is asked, draws to His love those who are grateful. But He keeps ungrateful souls praying a long time before Him, hungering and thirsting for what they want, since a badly trained dog rushes off as soon as it is given bread and leaves the giver behind.

Self-knowledge is a true idea of one's spiritual growth, and an unbroken remembrance of one's slightest sins.

Those who live in obedience are strangers to love of money. For where even the body has been given up, what is left to be one's own? Only in one way can they be harmed, namely by being ready and quick to go from place to place. I have seen material possessions make monks patient to remain in one place. But I praise those who are pilgrims for the Lord.

As a ray of sun, passing through a crack, lights everything in the house and shows up even the finest dust, so the fear of the Lord, entering a man's heart, reveals to him all his sins.

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

He who has become aware of his sins has controlled his tongue, but a talkative person has not yet come to know himself as he should.

The angels know how to speak about love, and even they can only do this according to the degree of their enlightenment.

In the hearts of the meek the Lord finds rest, but a turbulent soul is a seat of the devil.

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