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Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

Keep the commandments, and you will find peace; love God, and you will attain spiritual knowledge.

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.

Spiritual reading and prayer purify the intellect, while love and self-control purify the soul's passionate aspect.

Guard yourselves from soul-destroying heresy, communion with which is alienation from Christ.

The study of divine principles teaches knowledge of God to the person who lives in truth, longing and reverence.

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

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

Self-control and strenuous effort curb desire; stillness and intense longing for God wither it.

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

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

Do not seek to find the cause of temptations or whence they come; only pray to suffer them with gratitude.

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

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