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

Pride is the forerunner of every fall.

In words of boastfulness and self-justification there always lie concealed contrariness and pride, from which God turns away. After sinning one ought immediately to 'flee.' But you say, where? To the calm haven of heartfelt repentance.

Along with an evil thought, a hostile power enters into us, and then the soul is clouded, and evil thoughts harass her.

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

The zeal which wishes to destroy great evil without appropriate preparation is a great evil in itself.

Arrogance cannot bear to see itself scorned and humility held in honor.

Just as the most bitter medicine drives out poisonous things, so prayer joined to fasting drives evil thoughts away.

Everything has already begun, and everything always begins anew for the Church, with the Resurrection of our Lord.

Arrogance cannot bear to see itself scorned and humility held in honor.

Evil is not an actual substance, but absence of good; just as darkness is nothing but absence of light.

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

If a person swallows too much food, he is inviting impure thoughts. If he mortifies the stomach, he is creating pure thoughts. Often a lion if it is caressed becomes domesticated, whereas the more you coddle the body, the more it goes wild.

Sometimes, when we are overcome by pride or impatience and are unwilling to amend our ill-conditioned and disordered way of life, we complain that what we need is solitude, as though in solitude, meeting with no provocation, we should find there the virtue of patience, making excuses for our slackness, and laying the blame of our agitation not upon our own lack of patience, but ascribing it to the faults of our brethren, whereas so long as we impute to others the causes of our own faults, we shall never be able to reach the goal of patience and of perfection.

It is not food that is evil but gluttony; not childbearing but fornication; not money but cupidity; not glory but vainglory. If this be so there is no evil in anything that is, except wrong use, which results from our mind neglecting to cultivate our nature (the powers of the soul, and their right direction).

Where a fall has overtaken us, there pride has already pitched its tent; because a fall is an indication of pride.

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

Understand what I say: there can be no knowledge of the mysteries of God on a full stomach.

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.

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