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Quotes

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

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

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

If you lay down rules for yourself, do not disobey yourself; for he who cheats himself is self-deluded.

You were commanded to keep the body as a servant, not to be unnaturally enslaved to its pleasures.

The soul's health consists in dispassion and spiritual knowledge; no slave to sensual pleasure can attain it.

Concern for one's soul means hardship and humility, for through these God forgives us all our sins.

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.

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

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

Strive to love every man equally, and you will simultaneously expel all the passions.

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

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

Strive to love every man equally, and you will simultaneously expel all the passions.

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

A holy man told us one day, that the source of all heresies and schisms in the church was, loving God too little, and ourselves too much.

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

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

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

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