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

Every man that loves God loves a quiet life.

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

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.

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

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.

The self-indulgent are distressed by criticism and hardship; those who love God by praise and luxury.

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

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

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

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