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

A sign of deliverance from our falls is the continual reckoning of ourselves as debtors.

If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection.

Self-condemnation always brings peace and rest to the heart.

Should you accuse and condemn yourself before God for the sins on your conscience, you will be justified for doing so.

There is yet another reason that may cause our prayer to go unanswered: namely, that though we pray we yet continue in sin.

How much joy, how much peace of soul would a man not have wherever he went... if he was one who habitually accused himself.

Keep your conscience keen and bright, and refrain from hankering after, or expecting, consolation. Leave that to God. He knows when, where, and how to give it to you.

The more a man struggles to do good, the more fear grows in him, until it shows him his slightest faults, those which he thought of as nothing while he was still in the darkness of ignorance.

Blessed stillness gives birth to blessed children: self-control, love and pure prayer.

A prayer offered while one has any cause to reproach a fellow man is an impure prayer. There is only one whom the praying person may and must reproach, and that is himself. Without self-reproach, your prayer is as worthless as it is while you are reproaching someone else in your heart. Perhaps you ask: How can one learn this? The answer is: One learns it through prayer.

If a man accuses himself, he is protected on all sides.

The martyrs will show their torments, the ascetics their good works; but what will I have to show but my apathy and my incessant indulgence?

Live simply and God will not leave you...

He alone knows himself in the best way who thinks of himself as being nothing.

Stillness mortifies the outward senses and resurrects the inward movements, whereas agitation does the opposite, that is, it resurrects the outward senses and deadens the inward movements.

The garment of your soul must shine with the whiteness of simplicity.

Increasing self-criticism is the sign of increasing humility. Indeed, there is no clearer sign.

May simplicity go before you everywhere; especially be simple in your faith, hope, and love, for God is an Essence of Simplicity, a Unity that is worshipped everlastingly, and our soul is simple. The simplicity of our soul is hindered by our flesh, when we please it.

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