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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.

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

A wise man is one who pays attention to himself and is quick to separate himself from all defilement.

The desire for possessions is dangerous and terrible, knowing no satiety; it drives the soul which it controls to the heights of evil. Therefore, let us drive it away vigorously from the beginning. For once it has become master it cannot be overcome.

Make the body serve the commandments, keeping it so far as possible free from sickness and sensual pleasure.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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