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Quotes

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

Temptations are sent for improvement when God delivers his righteous ones to various temptations, humiliating them for some slight and unimportant offense, or to increase their purity, in order that every uncleanliness of thought, or... dross which He sees they have harbored in secret, may be burnt away in this present life, and that so He may bring them, as it were pure gold, to the future judgment...

Do not shun poverty and affliction, the fuel that gives wings to prayer.

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

The best form of prayer is one that implants the clearest idea of God in the soul and thus makes space for the presence of God within us.

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

Pray firstly to be purified of passions, secondly to be freed from ignorance and forgetfulness, and thirdly to be delivered from all temptation and forsaking.

Stand at prayer before the invisible God as if you saw Him, and with the conviction that He sees you and is looking at you attentively.

Do not attempt to assess the quality of your prayer. God alone can judge its value. To us, our own prayer must always appear so poor an effort, so inadequate an achievement, that the cry of the publican spontaneously rises from our lips.

The Fathers used to say, “If temptation befall thee in the place thou dost inhabit, desert not the place in the time of temptation: for if thou dost, wheresoever thou goest, thou shalt find what thou fliest before thee.”

Whenever our prayer subtly conceals that sharp icicle, our pride, it acts as a poison and can only lead us further away from God.

It is natural for the poor man to beg, and it is natural for man made poor by the fall into sin to pray.

A servant of the Lord is he who in body stands before men, but in mind knocks at Heaven with prayer.

Only the benumbed soul doesn’t pray. Preserve in yourselves the feeling of need, and you will always have stimulation for prayer.

You should not make long prayer, for it is better to pray little but often. Superfluous words are idle talk.

The prayer of one who does not consider himself sinful is not well-pleasing to God.

Unless humility and love, simplicity and goodness regulate our prayer, this prayer - or, rather, this pretence of prayer - cannot profit us at all. And this applies not only to prayer, but to every labor and hardship undertaken for the sake of virtue.

What air is for the life of the body, the Holy Spirit is for the life of the soul. By means of prayer, the soul breathes this holy, mysterious air.

If you want to pray properly, do not let yourself be upset or you will run in vain.

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