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

We must resist and avoid like deadly poison the desire to possess earthly goods.

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

He who has tasted the things on high easily despises what is below. But he who has not tasted the things above finds joy in possessions.

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

The fathers say that a man who sets store by the gold and silver he can amass does not believe that there is a God who provides for him.

A man who has embraced poverty offers up prayer that is pure, while a man who loves possessions prays to material images.

Rivalry over material possessions has made us forget the counsel of the Lord, who urged us to take no thought for earthly things, but to seek only the kingdom of heaven (cf. Matt. 6:33).

Do not the angels differ from us in this respect, that they do not want so many things as we do? Therefore the less we need, the more we are on our way to them; the more we need, the more we sink down to this perishable life.

Do not shun poverty and afflictions, these wings of buoyant prayer.

The desire for possessions is dangerous and terrible, knowing no satiety; it drives the soul which it controls to the heights of evil. Therefore, let us drive it away vigorously from the beginning. For once it has become master it cannot be overcome.

You know that evil entered into us through the transgression of the commandments. Hence it is obvious that by keeping them, evil departs from us. But without the doing of the commandments we should not even aspire or hope for purity of soul, because at the very outset we do not walk on the path that leads us to purity of soul. Do not say that God can give us the grace of purity of soul even without our keeping the commandments.

How destructive to the heart is even momentary attachment for anything earthly.

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

Love the poor, and through them you will find mercy.

A man who has embraced poverty offers up prayer that is pure, while a man who loves possessions prays to material images.

The more you love money, the more securely you close the Kingdom of God.

The wealth is not a possession, it is not property, it is a loan for use.

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

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