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Quotes

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

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.

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

The zeal which wishes to destroy great evil without appropriate preparation is a great evil in itself.

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

He who fears God will pay careful attention to his soul and will free himself from communion with evil.

The intellect becomes a stranger to the things of this world when its attachment to the senses has been completely sundered.

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.

Along with an evil thought, a hostile power enters into us, and then the soul is clouded, and evil thoughts harass her.

The roof of any house stands upon the foundations and the rest of the structure. The foundations themselves are laid in order to carry the roof. This is both useful and necessary, for the roof cannot stand without the foundations and the foundations are absolutely useless without the roof-- no help to any living creature. In the same way the grace of God is preserved by the practice of the commandments, and the observance of these commandments is laid down like foundations through the gift of God. The grace of the Spirit cannot remain with us without the practice of the commandments, but the practice of the commandments is of no help or advantage to us without the grace of God.

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

Evil is not an actual substance, but absence of good; just as darkness is nothing but absence of light.

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.

Nothing is better than to realize one's weakness and ignorance, and nothing is worse than not to be aware of them.

Struggle until death to fulfill the commandments: purified through them, you will enter into life.

Just as the most bitter medicine drives out poisonous things, so prayer joined to fasting drives evil thoughts away.

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

You know that evil entered into us through the transgression of the commandments. Hence it is obvious that by keeping them, evil departs from us. But without the doing of the commandments we should not even aspire or hope for purity of soul, because at the very outset we do not walk on the path that leads us to purity of soul. Do not say that God can give us the grace of purity of soul even without our keeping the commandments.

One who is capable of seeing himself is better than one who has been made worthy to see angels.

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