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Quotes

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

Vanity is eliminated by acting secretly, and pride by ascribing to God all that is well done.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Stillness mortifies the outward senses and resurrects the inward movements, whereas agitation does the opposite, that is, it resurrects the outward senses and deadens the inward movements.

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

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.

Blessed stillness gives birth to blessed children: self-control, love and pure prayer.

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