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

A vigilant monk is a foe to fornication, but a sleepy one is its mate.

When we stand in prayer, those unclean and unspeakable thoughts (blasphemy) assail us; but if we continue praying to the end, they retire at once, for they do not fight those who stand up to them.

Obedience is to give up one's own judgment but to do it with wise consultation.

The demons, murderers as they are, push us into sin. Or if they fail to do this, they get us to pass judgment on those who are sinning, so that they may defile us with the stain which we ourselves are condemning in another.

Meekness is a rock overlooking the sea of anger, which breaks all the waves that dash against it, yet remains completely unmoved.

It is a great work to shake from the soul the praise of men, but to reject the praise of demons is greater.

A little fire softens a large piece of wax. So, too, a small indignity often softens, sweetens and wipes away suddenly all the fierceness, insensibility & hardness of our heart.

Love and humility form a holy pair; what the first builds, the second binds, thus preventing the building from falling asunder.

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.

Do not condemn, even if you see with your eyes, for they are often deceived.

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

It seems to me that, in all cases when indignity is offered to us, we should be silent; for it is our moment of profit.

A fish swiftly escapes a hook and a sensual soul shuns solitude.

If a person swallows too much food, he is inviting impure thoughts. If he mortifies the stomach, he is creating pure thoughts. Often a lion if it is caressed becomes domesticated, whereas the more you coddle the body, the more it goes wild.

He who refuses to accept a criticism, just or not, renounces his own salvation, while he who accepts it, hard or not though it may be, will soon have his sins forgiven.

Meekness is an immovable state of soul which remains unaffected, whether in evil report or in good report, in dishonor or in praise.

Fire and water do not mix, neither can you mix judgment of others with the desire to repent. If a man commits a sin before you at the very moment of his death, pass no judgment, because the judgment of God is hidden from men. It has happened that men have sinned greatly in the open but have done greater deeds in secret, so that those who would disparage them have been fooled, with smoke instead of sunlight in their eyes.

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

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