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Quotes

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

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

This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits.

The person who is unaffected by the things of this world loves stillness; and he who loves no human thing loves all men.

If you have no works, do not speak on virtues. Afflictions suffered for the Lord's sake are more precious to Him than every vow and sacrifice; and the odor of their sweet surpasses every fragrance.

Not he is chaste in whom shameful thoughts stop in time of struggle, work and endeavor, but he who by the trueness of his heart makes chaste the vision of his mind not letting it stretch out towards unseemly thoughts.

Love the poor, and through them you will find mercy.

The heart of a man who oversees his soul at all times is made joyous by revelations.

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

True wisdom is gazing at God. Gazing at God is silence of the thoughts. Stillness of mind is tranquility which comes from discernment.

The man who is conscious of his sins is greater than he who profits the whole world by the sight of his countenance. The man who sighs over his soul for but one hour is greater than he who raises the dead by his prayer while dwelling amid many men.

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

Love of God proceeds from conversing with him; this conversation of prayer comes about through stillness, and stillness comes with the stripping away of the self.

The prayers of those who hold grudges is sowing on stone.

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

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

Every man that loves God loves a quiet life.

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

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

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