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

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

God the Word, the God-Man, our Lord Jesus Christ, compares our life with a market, and the work of our life on earth He calls trading, and says to us all: Trade till I come (Luke 19:13), redeeming the time, because the days are evil (Ephesians 5:16). That is to say, make the most of your time for getting heavenly blessings through earthly goods. Earthly goods are good works done for Christ's sake and conferring on us the grace of the All-Holy Spirit.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Just as the blessings of God are unutterably great, so their acquisition requires much hardship and toil undertaken with hope and faith.

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