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Quotes

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

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

Love and self-control purify the soul.

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

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

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

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

Do not neglect the practice of the virtues; if you do, your spiritual knowledge will decrease, and when famine occurs you will go down into Egypt (Genesis 41:57, 46:6).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fear of the Lord conquers desire, and distress that accords with God's will repulses sensual pleasure.

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

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