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

One who lives in idleness sins continually.

Each Christian, especially a priest, should follow in example the goodness of the Lord, that everyone should be invited to partake of the Lord's food at your table. The miser is an enemy of the Lord.

But if you give a strong body rest and ease and idleness, all the passions dwelling in the soul are intensified. Then, even if the soul has a great desire for good, even the very thought of the good that is desired will be taken from you.

Self-knowledge is a true idea of one's spiritual growth, and an unbroken remembrance of one's slightest sins.

‘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.

One who is capable of seeing himself is better than one who has been made worthy to see angels.

Ease and idleness are the destruction of the soul and they can injure her more than the demons.

Nothing is better than to realize one's weakness and ignorance, and nothing is worse than not to be aware of them.

It is a sin to spend time idly.

Those who yield themselves to idleness and apathy, even though they may be spiritual and holy, hurl themselves into unnatural subjection to passions.

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