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

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

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.

Strive to walk worthily of the vocation to which you were called.

If your heart has been softened either by repentance before God or by learning the boundless love of God towards you, do not be proud with those whose hearts are still hard. Remember how long your heart was hard and incorrigible. Seven brothers were ill in one hospital. One recovered from his illness and got up and rushed to serve his other brothers with brotherly love, to speed their recovery. Be like this brother. Consider all men to be your brothers, and sick brothers at that. And if you come to feel that God has given you better health than others, know that it is given through mercy, so in health you may serve your frailer brothers.

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

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.

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