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

One who lives in idleness sins continually.

It is a sin to spend time idly.

Those who yield themselves to idleness and apathy, even though they may be spiritual and holy, hurl themselves into unnatural subjection to passions.

Ease and idleness are the destruction of the soul and they can injure her more than the demons.

But if you give a strong body rest and ease and idleness, all the passions dwelling in the soul are intensified. Then, even if the soul has a great desire for good, even the very thought of the good that is desired will be taken from you.

The more you love money, the more securely you close the Kingdom of God.

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

The fathers say that a man who sets store by the gold and silver he can amass does not believe that there is a God who provides for him.

The most important thing during illness is to offer to God patience and thanksgiving for His merciful visitations. Sickness purifies sins and gives one time to meditate on the past.

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