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

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

‘Wine makes glad the heart of man' (Ps. 104:15). But you who have professed sorrow and grief should turn away from such gladness and rejoice in spiritual gifts. If you rejoice in wine, you will live with shameful thoughts and distress will overwhelm you.

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

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

Truly wretched and three times miserable is the soul that has left the world and dedicated itself to God but has not lived in a manner worthy of its promise. Then, brothers, let us not allow this age, which is short and contemptible and passes like a shadow, to steal that blessed and immortal life away from us.

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

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

We must resist and avoid like deadly poison the desire to possess earthly goods.

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

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

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

Make the body serve the commandments, keeping it so far as possible free from sickness and sensual pleasure.

Self-love -- that is, friendship for the body -- is the source of evil in the soul.

Such tears should be preserved... because they have great power and action in destroying and uprooting sins and passions.

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

For weeping delivers us from eternal fire and other future punishments, so the Fathers say.

All sin is due to sensual pleasure, all forgiveness to hardship and distress.

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

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