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

Self-knowledge is a true idea of one's spiritual growth, and an unbroken remembrance of one's slightest sins.

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

Nothing is better than to realize one's weakness and ignorance, and nothing is worse than not to be aware of them.

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

It is more serious to lose hope than to sin. The traitor Judas was a defeatist, inexperienced in spiritual warfare; as a result he was reduced to despair by the enemy's onslaught, and he went and hanged himself. Peter, on the other hand, was a firm rock: although brought down by a terrible fall, yet because of his experience in spiritual warfare he was not broken by despair, but leaping up he shed bitter tears from a contrite and humiliated heart. And as soon as our enemy saw them, he recoiled as if his eyes had been burnt by searing flames, and he took flight...

One who is capable of seeing himself is better than one who has been made worthy to see angels.

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.

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