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

You are accustomed to look upon your body as upon your own inalienable property, but that is quite wrong, because your body is God's edifice.

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

Keep the body properly slim so that you reduce the burden of the heart's warfare, with full benefit to yourself.

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

Our flesh is an unfaithful friend.

The saints’ freedom from envy is a wonderful phenomenon. The saints not only did not allow envy to conquer their hearts, but exerted themselves greatly to ensure that their friends be exalted and they themselves debased.

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.

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.

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

Break the bonds of your friendship for the body and give it only what is absolutely necessary.

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...

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.

Beware of envy. Wherever there is envy, God's spirit does not exist.

Keep the body properly slim so that you reduce the burden of the heart's warfare, with full benefit to yourself.

Great Lent - all of its services are united by the idea of preparing for Holy Pascha, to meet the Risen Christ with a clean heart.

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.

Paschal joy is a foretaste of eternal joy in the approaching kingdom of Christ.

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.

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