• Vespers: Saturdays 5PM
  • Divine Liturgy: Sundays 9:30AM
Archangel Michael Logo

Quotes

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

Do not neglect the practice of the virtues; if you do, your spiritual knowledge will decrease, and when famine occurs you will go down into Egypt (Genesis 41:57, 46:6).

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

According to the degree to which the intellect is stripped of the passions, the Holy Spirit initiates the intellect into the mysteries of the age to be.

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

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

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

He who fears God will pay careful attention to his soul and will free himself from communion with evil.

The person who listens to Christ fills himself with light; and if he imitates Christ, he reclaims himself.

You have no peace from thoughts, which impel you to trouble others, and in turn to be troubled by others. But know, my brother, that if we offend by word or deed, we are thereby ourselves offended a hundredfold. Be longsuffering in all things and refrain from letting your own will enter into anything. Carefully examine your thoughts lest they infect your heart with deadly poison (ill temper) and make you take a gnat for a camel, a pebble for a cliff, and lest you become like a man who has a beam in his own eye but beholds the mote in the eye of another.

,

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

The intellect becomes a stranger to the things of this world when its attachment to the senses has been completely sundered.

Acquire humility, which scorches the demons, obedience, which opens the door for the Son of God to enter a man, faith which saves a man, hope which makes him unashamed; and love which lets not a man fall away from God.

,

During a time of disturbance and warfare of thoughts, one should lessen a little even the ordinary quantity of food and drink.

,

Love and self-control purify the soul.

Listlessness is an apathy of soul; and a soul becomes apathetic when sick with self-indulgence.

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

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

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

Filtered (61)
Filters
Search By Keyword
Filter By
See more See less
Topics (Love, Anger, Confession, etc.)
See more See less
Show (61)
Cancel
Parish

Mailing Address

Archangel Michael Orthodox Church
5025 E. Mill Rd
Broadview Heights, Ohio 44147

Email, Phone, and Fax

[email protected]
440-526-5192 (Phone)