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

A lover of riches is never satisfied, no matter how many possessions he accumulates, but the more he acquires daily, the more his appetite increases; and a person forcibly pulled away from a stream of pure water before he has quenched his thirst feels even more thirsty. In a similar way, once one has experienced the taste of God, one can never be satisfied or have enough of it, but however much one is enriched by this wealth one still feels oneself to be poor. Christians do not set great store by their own lives, but regard themselves rather as rightly set at nought by God and as everyone’s servants.

One who lives in idleness sins continually.

As earth thrown over it extinguishes a fire burning in a stove, so worldly cares and every kind of attachment to something, however small and insignificant, destroys the warmth of the heart which was there at first.

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

It is a sin to spend time idly.

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

Love of God proceeds from conversing with him; this conversation of prayer comes about through stillness, and stillness comes with the stripping away of the self.

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

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.

Go, sell all that belongs to you and give it to the poor and taking up the cross, deny yourself; in this way you will be able to pray without distraction.

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).

Those who yield themselves to idleness and apathy, even though they may be spiritual and holy, hurl themselves into unnatural subjection to passions.

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

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

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.

The person who is unaffected by the things of this world loves stillness; and he who loves no human thing loves all men.

Ease and idleness are the destruction of the soul and they can injure her more than the demons.

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.

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