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

Love and self-control purify the soul.

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

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

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

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

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

‘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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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