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

One should nourish the soul with the word of God: for the word of God, as St. Gregory the Theologian says, is angelic bread, by which are nourished souls who hunger for God. Most of all, one should occupy oneself with reading the New Testament and the Psalter, which one should do standing up. From this there occurs an enlightenment in the mind, which is in the mind, which is changed by a Divine change.

He who smells the smell of one's own foul odor doesn't smell the foul odor of anyone else.

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Holy Scripture is presented to the mind’s eye like a mirror in which the appearance of our inner being can be seen.

The Scriptures were not given merely that we might have them in books, but that we might engrave them on our hearts.

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

A sign of deliverance from our falls is the continual reckoning of ourselves as debtors.

Ignorance of the scriptures is a precipice and a deep abyss.

A humble and spiritually active man, when he reads the Holy Scripture, will refer everything to himself and not to another.

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

How much joy, how much peace of soul would a man not have wherever he went... if he was one who habitually accused himself.

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

There is yet another reason that may cause our prayer to go unanswered: namely, that though we pray we yet continue in sin.

As for uprooting your passions, begin with self-reproach and with awareness of your own weaknesses; and consider yourself to be deserving of afflictions.

Who has conquered the body? He who has made the heart contrite. Who then has made the heart contrite? He who has denied himself.

The martyrs will show their torments, the ascetics their good works; but what will I have to show but my apathy and my incessant indulgence?

But, say the saints, now that you recognize the darkness in your own heart and the weakness of your flesh, you lose all desire to pass judgment on your neighbor. Out of your own darkness you see the heavenly light that shines in all created things reflected the clearer: you cannot detect the sins of others while your own are so great. For it is in your eager striving for perfection that you first perceive your own imperfection. And only when you have seen your imperfection, can you be perfected. Thus perfection proceeds out of weakness.

Reading the scriptures is a great safeguard against sin.

We have become so inattentive to the work of our salvation that we misinterpret many other words in Holy Scripture as well, all because we do not seek the grace of God and in the pride of our minds do not allow it to dwell in our souls. That is why we are without true enlightenment from the Lord, which He sends into the hearts of men who hunger and thirst wholeheartedly for God’s righteousness or holiness.

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