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

He who really keeps account of his actions considers as lost every day in which he does not mourn, whatever good he may have done in it.

If you possess the gift of mourning, hold on to it with all your might. For it is easily lost when it is not firmly established. And just as wax melts in the presence of fire, so it is easily dissolved by noise and bodily cares, and by luxury, and especially by talkativeness and levity.

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

When a man has been sufficiently illumined, however, to perceive his own faults, he never ceases mourning for himself and for all men, seeing God’s great forbearance and what sins we in our wretchedness have committed and still persist in committing. As a result of this he becomes full of gratitude, not daring to condemn anyone, shamed by the profusion of God’s blessings and the multitude of our sins. Thereupon he joyfully renounces everything in his own will that is counter to God, and he watches over his own senses, so as to prevent them from doing anything beyond what is unavoidably needed.

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

He who really keeps account of his actions considers as lost every day in which he does not mourn, whatever good he may have done in it.

The man who follows Christ in solitary mourning is greater than he who praises Christ amid the congregation of men.

God-fearing sorrow mourns either its own sins, or those of others.

The man who follows Christ in solitary mourning is greater than he who praises Christ amid the congregation of men.

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

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

If you are enclosed within yourself through prayer, humility, and mourning, you will find a spiritual treasure -- only let pride and criticism be far from you.

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

Mourning according to God is sadness of soul and the disposition of a sorrowing heart, which ever madly seeks that for which it thirsts; and when it fails in its quest, it painfully pursues it, and follows in its wake grievously lamenting. Or thus: mourning is a golden spur in a soul which is stripped of all attachment and of all ties, fixed in a soul which is stripped of all attachment and of all ties, fixed by holy sorrow to watch over the heart.

As the gradual pouring of water on a fire completely extinguishes the flame, so the tears of mourning are able to quench every flame of anger and irritability. Therefore, we place this next in order. (after mourning).

The first divine fruit of silence is mourning -- grief according to God -- joy-grief. Afterward come luminous thoughts, which bring the holy flow of tears streaming with life, from which also comes the second baptism and the soul is purified and shines and becomes like the angels.

If you have spoken evil of your brother, and you are stricken with remorse, go and kneel down before him and say: 'I have spoken badly of you; let this be my surety that I will not spread this slander any further.' For detraction is death to the soul.

He who fears God will pay careful attention to his soul and will free himself from communion with evil.

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