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Quotes

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

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

Nothing is better for rendering the heart penitent and the soul humble than wise solitude and complete silence.

A fish swiftly escapes a hook and a sensual soul shuns solitude.

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.

The arrows of the enemy cannot touch one who loves quietness; but he who moves about in a crowd will often be wounded.

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

Solitude offers us an excellent opportunity for calming our passions and giving our reason time to remove them thoroughly from our soul. For just as wild animals can be soothed by being stroked, so all our anger, fear and stress, which poison and disrupt our soul, can be soothed by an atmosphere of peace where the freedom from constant disturbance ensures that our soul can be brought more easily under the power of reason.

Every man that loves God loves a quiet life.

Nothing so fills the heart with contrition and humbles the soul as solitude embraced with self-awareness, and utter silence.

True joy is the joy of consolation, the joy that wells up in the knowledge of one's own weakness and the Lord's mercy, and that does not need the bared teeth of laughter to express itself.

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

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