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Quotes

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

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

Pride is known by its deeds as a tree is known by its fruits.

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.

The Holy Fathers say, 'Pride goeth before a fall, and humility before grace.' Whereas faintheartedness is the mother of impatience.

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.

Bear in mind that prayer alone, unaccompanied by moral improvement, is useless.

A haughty person is not aware of his faults, or a humble person of his good qualities. An evil ignorance blinds the first, an ignorance pleasing to God blinds the second.

When you pray fervently, watch, for there will be temptations. This happens to everyone.

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

Prayer is the seed of gentleness and the absence of anger.

Those who mourn and those who are insensitive are not subject to fear, but the cowardly often have become deranged. And this is natural. For the Lord rightly forsakes the proud that the rest of us may learn not to be puffed up.

Undistracted prayer is the highest doing of the mind.

Pride is the forerunner of every fall.

Whatever you have endured out of love of wisdom will bear fruit for you at the time of prayer.

Prayer is truly a heavenly armor, and it alone can keep safe those who have dedicated themselves to God. Prayer is the common medicine for purifying ourselves from the passions, for hindering sin and curing our faults. Prayer is an inexhaustible treasure, an unruffled harbor, the foundation of serenity, the root and mother of myriads of blessings.

The prayers of those who hold grudges is sowing on stone.

How can one avoid distractions in prayer? If one abides in the presence of God. Indeed, when in the presence of one's judge and one's master, and speaking with him, one does not let one's eyes wander elsewhere. How much more should the one who approaches the Lord never turn away the eye of his heart, but fix it on Him who searches the reins and the heart.

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