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Quotes

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

As a man cannot remain unscathed who spares his enemy on the field of battle, so a man engaged in spiritual warfare cannot save his soul if he spares his body.

Let work humble the body, and when the body is humbled the soul will be humble with it, so that it is truly said that bodily labors lead to humility.

Our flesh is an unfaithful friend.

When the flesh flourishes, the soul fades; when the flesh has full liberty, the soul is straitened; when the flesh is satiated, the soul hungers; when the flesh is adorned, the soul is deformed; when the flesh overflows with laughter, the soul is surrounded by misfortune; when the flesh is in the light, the soul is in darkness...

Every man that loves God loves a quiet life.

Nothing is better for rendering the heart penitent and the soul humble than wise solitude and complete silence.

Almsgiving heals the soul's incensive power; fasting withers sensual desire; prayer purifies the intellect and prepares it for contemplation of created beings. For the Lord has given us commandments which correspond to the powers of the soul.

One who lives in idleness sins continually.

Make the body serve the commandments, keeping it so far as possible free from sickness and sensual pleasure.

Charity, temperance, contemplation, and prayer please God; gluttony, licentiousness, and what multiplies them, please the flesh. Therefore they who are in the flesh cannot please God. And they that are Christ’s have crucified their flesh with the passions and concupiscences.

You were commanded to keep the body as a servant, not to be unnaturally enslaved to its pleasures.

Unless a man keeps the commandments of God, he cannot progress, even in a single virtue.

It is an insult to the intelligence to be subject to what lacks intelligence and to concern itself with shameful desires.

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

It is a sin to spend time idly.

The man who pets a lion may tame it, but the man who coddles the body makes it ravenous.

A fish swiftly escapes a hook and a sensual soul shuns solitude.

Keep the commandments, and you will find peace; love God, and you will attain spiritual knowledge.

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