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Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Self-control and strenuous effort curb desire; stillness and intense longing for God wither it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Listlessness is an apathy of soul; and a soul becomes apathetic when sick with self-indulgence.

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.

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

Love and self-control purify the soul.

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

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

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