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Quotes

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

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

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

A man is neither saved nor lost by the place he is in, but is saved or lost by his deeds. Neither a holy place nor a holy state is of use to him who does not fulfill the commandments of the Lord.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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