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

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

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.

If someone is judged worthy to receive the gift of knowledge but allows his heart to be full of bitterness or rancor or aversion to another, it is as if he had been struck in the eye by a thornbush. That is why knowledge is no good without charity.

If you have received from God the gift of knowledge, however limited, beware of neglecting charity and temperance. They are virtues which radically purify the soul from passions and so open the way of knowledge continually.

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

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

We must strive after a quiet mind.

Grow calm, grow quiet after harmful noise... you will experience a certain movement towards eternity; gradually, like a still, small voice, a thought will come to you as to who you are and what is your end and purpose... this is a sign of the approach of the word of God in your soul.

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