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Quotes

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

Reveal yourself to the Lord in your mind. 'For man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart' (l Sam. 16:7)

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

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

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

He who repents rightly does not imagine that it is his own effort which cancels his former sins, but through this effort he makes his peace with God.

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

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

Do not seek the perfection of the law in human virtues, for it is not found perfect in them. Its perfection is hidden in the Cross of Christ.

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

He is not yet a faithful servant who bases himself on bare knowledge alone; a faithful servant is he who professes his faith by obedience to Christ, Who gave the commandments.

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

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

He who wants to cross the spiritual sea is long-suffering, humble, vigilant and self-controlled. If he impetuously embarks on it without these four virtues, he agitates his heart, but cannot cross.

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

No one is as good and kind as the Lord is; but He does not forgive one who does not repent.

If a man has some spiritual gift and feels compassion for those who do not have it, he preserves the gift because of his compassion. But a boastful man will lose it through succumbing to the temptations of boastfulness.

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

He who wishes to avoid future troubles should endure his present troubles gladly.

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