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Quotes

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

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

Self-knowledge is a true idea of one's spiritual growth, and an unbroken remembrance of one's slightest sins.

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

When tested by some trial you should try to find out not why or through whom it came, but only how to endure it gratefully, without distress or rancor.

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

Grace always precedes temptation, as if to notify you saying, 'Prepare yourself and lock your doors.'

Since self-love is the origin and mother of evil, when this is eradicated all the things which derive from it are eradicated as well. For when self-love is absent, not the slightest trace or form of evil can exist in any way at all.

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.

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.

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

Self-love precedes all passions, and the scorn of ease precedes all the virtues.

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.

He who loves himself cannot love God. But he who, for love of God, does not love himself, loves God.

The greatest obstacle that obstructs God's grace is self-love. When God finds one's heart emptied of all desires, He fills it with His grace.

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...

As work according to God is called virtue, so unexpected affliction is called a test.

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

There is no venom more poisonous than that of the asp or cobra, and there is no evil greater than that of self-love. The winged children of self-love are self-praise, self-satisfaction, gluttony, unchastity, self-esteem, jealousy and the crown of all these, pride. Pride can drag down not men alone, but even angels from heaven, and surround them with darkness instead of light.

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