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

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 Lord often humbles the vainglorious by causing some dishonor to befall them. And indeed the first step in overcoming vainglory is to remain silent and to accept dishonor gladly. The middle stage is to check every act of vainglory while it is still in thought. The end—insofar as one may talk of an end to an abyss—is to be able to accept humiliation before others without actually feeling it.

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

Even if we have innumerable virtues, the plague of vainglory is capable of destroying them all. If, then, we desire praises let us seek those which come from God.

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