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

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.

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

An unmerciful ascetic is a barren tree.

According to the degree to which the intellect is stripped of the passions, the Holy Spirit initiates the intellect into the mysteries of the age to be.

Self-love -- that is, friendship for the body -- is the source of evil in the soul.

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

Fear God and keep His commandments both in your feelings and in your intellect. If you force yourself to keep them in your intellect, bit by bit you will attain to fulfilling them in your feelings.

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

Love reveals itself in works of mercy.

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

Go and have pity on all, for through pity, one finds freedom of speech before God.

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.

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...

Have confidence in the compassion of our Creator. Reflect well on what you are now doing, and keep before you the things you have done. Lift up your eyes to the overflowing compassion of heaven, and while He waits for you, draw near in tears to our merciful Judge. Having before your mind that He is a Just Judge, do not take your sins lightly; and having also in mind that He is compassionate, do not despair. The God-Man gives man confidence before God.

Our flesh is an unfaithful friend.

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

Even if we have thousands of acts of great virtue to our credit, our confidence in being heard must be based on God's mercy and His love for men. Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.

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

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