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.

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.

Beware of reading the doctrines of heretics for they, more than anything else, can equip the spirit of blasphemy against you.

A man is neither saved nor lost by the place he is in, but is saved or lost by his deeds. Neither a holy place nor a holy state is of use to him who does not fulfill the commandments of the Lord.

Only with the greatest struggle and sacrifice is the chaff of heresy separated from the wheat of Orthodox truth.

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

Just as a moth devours clothing and a worm devours wood, so dejection devours a man’s soul.

Guard yourselves from soul-destroying heresy, communion with which is alienation from Christ.

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.

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