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

One who lives in idleness sins continually.

Love of God proceeds from conversing with him; this conversation of prayer comes about through stillness, and stillness comes with the stripping away of the self.

Through anger wisdom is lost, so that we no longer know what we are to do, or in what manner we should do it.

It is a sin to spend time idly.

He who has put a stop to anger has also destroyed remembrance of wrongs; because childbirth continues only while the father is alive.

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.

Stillness mortifies the outward senses and resurrects the inward movements, whereas agitation does the opposite, that is, it resurrects the outward senses and deadens the inward movements.

Of the Only Case in Which Anger is Good... But we have a use for anger most properly planted within us, and for this use alone it is profitable and healthful for us to entertain it, namely, when we burn with wrathful indignation against the lustful motions of our own hearts, and are enraged to find that those things which we should be ashamed to do or to speak of before men have found admittance into the secret places of our minds. We may then well dread and fear exceedingly the presence of the Angels and the Omnipresence of God Himself, and His all-seeing Eye from which no secrets of our hearts can lie hid.

Compunction comes when you consider how much you have grieved God Who is so good, so sweet, so merciful, so kind, and entirely full of love; Who was crucified and suffered everything for us. When you meditate on these things and other things the Lord has suffered, they bring compunction.

If, wishing to correct another, you are moved to anger, you gratify your own passion. Do not lose yourself in order to save another.

Leaves, whether of gold or lead, placed over the eyes, obstruct the sight equally, for the value of gold does not affect the blindness it produces. Similarly, anger, whether reasonable or unreasonable, obstructs our spiritual vision.

Truly, arrogance knows that it is guilty; therefore it places anger at the gate, to act as its sentry.

When one gets angry, he is deprived of God's protection.

The way to attain compunction is an attentive life. ‘The beginning of repentance comes from the fear of God and attention,’ as the holy martyr Boniface says.

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

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

How then shall we escape the disasters that anger brings? By training the force of our feelings not to rush ahead of the power of reason.

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

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