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Quotes

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

If you love the Sender, then also love the letter which is sent from Him to you. For the word of God is given by God to me, to you, and to everyone, so that everyone who desires to be saved may receive salvation through it.

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

Reading the Scriptures is a great means of security against sinning.

Keep a strict watch against any appearance of pride: it appears imperceptibly, particularly in time of vexation and irritability against others for quite unimportant causes.

Know that if your thought leads you to look at how others live, this is a sign of pride.

All other possessions do not really belong to the one who has them or to the one who has acquired them for they are exchanged back and forth like a game of dice. Only virtue among our possessions cannot be taken away, but remains with us when we live and when we die.

God in His mercy gave us the Holy Scriptures that we might read them, and reading them we might fulfill what is sent by God to man, revealing His Holy Will and teaching us how to live. Consider with what attention and willingness that we ought to read God's letter to us. If an earthly king...wrote to you a letter, would you not read it with great joy? Certainly, with great rejoicing and careful attention. The King of Heaven has sent a letter to you, an earthly and mortal man; yet you almost despise such a gift, so priceless a treasure. Whenever you read the Gospel, Christ Him self is speaking to you. And while you read, you are praying and talking with Him. God speaks to man, the King of Heaven talks with the corruptible creature, the Lord holds converse with the servant. What can be more pleasant... more instructive?

Pride is the forerunner of every fall.

A humble and spiritually active man, when he reads the Holy Scripture, will refer everything to himself and not to another.

Arrogance cannot bear to see itself scorned and humility held in honor.

Ignorance of the scriptures is a precipice and a deep abyss.

Pride is known by its deeds as a tree is known by its fruits.

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

Holy Scripture is presented to the mind’s eye like a mirror in which the appearance of our inner being can be seen.

It is no small struggle to be freed from self-esteem. Such freedom is to be attained by the inner practice of the virtues and by more frequent prayer; and the sign that you have attained it is that you no longer harbor rancor against anybody who abuses or has abused you.

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.

Whoever is experienced in the spiritual interpretation of Scripture knows that the simplest passage is of a significance equal to that of the most abstruse passage, and that both are directed to the salvation of man.

Where a fall has overtaken us, there pride has already pitched its tent; because a fall is an indication of pride.

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