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Quotes

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

Long-suffering and readiness to forgive curb anger; love and compassion wither it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Whenever we enter the church and draw near to the heavenly mysteries, we ought to approach with all humility and fear, both because of the presence of the angelic powers and out of the reverence due to the sacred oblation; for as the Angels are said to have stood by the Lord's body when it lay in the tomb, so we must believe that they are present in the celebration of the Mysteries of His most sacred Body at the time of consecration.

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

Love and self-control purify the soul.

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

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

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

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

One of the Fathers said: just as it is impossible for a man to see his face in troubled water, so too the soul, unless it be cleansed of alien thoughts, cannot pray to God in contemplation.

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

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

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

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