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Quotes

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

The intellect becomes a stranger to the things of this world when its attachment to the senses has been completely sundered.

The beginning of evil is heedlessness.

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

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

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

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.

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

According to the degree to which the intellect is stripped of the passions, the Holy Spirit initiates the intellect into the mysteries of the age to be.

Fear God and keep His commandments both in your feelings and in your intellect. If you force yourself to keep them in your intellect, bit by bit you will attain to fulfilling them in your feelings.

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

Beware of reading the doctrines of heretics for they, more than anything else, can equip the spirit of blasphemy against you.

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