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

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

Ignorance of the scriptures is a precipice and a deep abyss.

Sin, to one who loves God, is nothing other than an arrow from the enemy in battle. The true Christian is a warrior fighting his way through the regiments of the unseen enemy to his heavenly homeland.

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.

If however any one thinks that he is not being burned when sinning, to him the Scripture saith, Shall a man wrap up fire in his bosom, and not burn his clothes? For sin burns the sinews of the soul, and breaks the spiritual bones of the mind, and darkens the light of the heart.

Apt silence bridles anger.

Every man who has committed sin, has stopped up the senses of his soul with the mud of pleasure.

If you want to pray properly, do not let yourself be upset or you will run in vain.

If you feel no pang in committing minor offences you will through them fall into major transgressions.

Paissy the Great, having lost his temper, begged the Lord to deliver him from irritability. The Lord appeared to him and said, ‘Paissy, if thou dost not wish to get angry, desire nothing, neither criticize nor hate any man, and thou wilt have no anger.’

Sin disfigures a man, while grace brings beauty.

Do not befoul your intellect by clinging to thoughts filled with anger and sensual desire. Otherwise you will lose your capacity for pure prayer and fall victim to the demon of listlessness.

Believe me, brethren, the more we are now in earnest to keep ourselves free from sin, the more confident shall we then be in His Presence.

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

Reading the scriptures is a great safeguard against sin.

He who is not indifferent to fame and pleasure, as well as to love of riches that exists because of them and increases them, cannot cut off occasions for anger. And he who does not cut these off cannot attain perfect love.

The ignorance of Scripture is a great cliff and a deep abyss; to know nothing of the divine laws is a great betrayal of salvation.

Let us not put off from day to day, without observing how sin is injuring us.

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