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Quotes

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

Love and self-control purify the soul.

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

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

Guard yourselves from soul-destroying heresy, communion with which is alienation from Christ.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Keep the commandments, and you will find peace; love God, and you will attain spiritual knowledge.

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

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

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

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