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Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Break the bonds of your friendship for the body and give it only what is absolutely necessary.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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