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

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

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

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

Unless curbed by the fear of God that accompanies the practice of the virtues, spiritual knowledge leads to vanity; for it encourages the person puffed up by it to regard as his own what has merely been lent to him, and to use his borrowed intelligence to win praise for himself. But when his practice of the virtues increases concomitantly with his longing for God, and he does not arrogate to himself more spiritual knowledge than is needed for the task in hand, then he is made humble, reduced to himself by principles which are beyond his capacity.

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.

Reading and spiritual knowledge are good, but only when they lead to greater humility.

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