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

Let us through almsgiving become owners of our own souls.

If someone is judged worthy to receive the gift of knowledge but allows his heart to be full of bitterness or rancor or aversion to another, it is as if he had been struck in the eye by a thornbush. That is why knowledge is no good without charity.

Strive to walk worthily of the vocation to which you were called.

If you have received from God the gift of knowledge, however limited, beware of neglecting charity and temperance. They are virtues which radically purify the soul from passions and so open the way of knowledge continually.

A holy man told us one day, that the source of all heresies and schisms in the church was, loving God too little, and ourselves too much.

Through the cheap price of doing good to men, we can acquire the priceless Kingdom of God.

Guard yourselves from soul-destroying heresy, communion with which is alienation from Christ.

Only with the greatest struggle and sacrifice is the chaff of heresy separated from the wheat of Orthodox truth.

Beware of reading the doctrines of heretics for they, more than anything else, can equip the spirit of blasphemy against you.

No one can say, 'I am poor and hence I have no means of giving alms.' For even if you cannot give as the rich gave their gifts into the temple treasury, give two farthings as the poor widow did, and from you God will consider it greater gift than the gifts of the rich. And if you do not have as much as two farthings? You can take pity on the sick and give alms by ministering to them. And if you cannot do even this? You can comfort your brother by your words. 'A good word is better than the best of gifts.'

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