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- But I say to you, the Lord says, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, pray for those who persecute you. Why…
- Those who, animal-like, live solely according to the senses... misuse God's creation in order to indulge the passions. They do not understand the principle of…
- When like the patriarchs we learn to dig wells of virtue and spiritual knowledge within ourselves by means of ascetic practice and contemplation, we will…
- If you expound the teaching of the Logos from the standpoint of the moral life, using materialistic words and examples which correspond to the capacity…
- When we think of the height of God's infinity we should not despair of His compassion reaching us from such a height; and when we…
- Those who seek the Lord should not look for Him outside themselves; on the contrary, they must seek Him within themselves through faith made manifest…
- He who busies himself with the sins of others, or judges his brother on suspicion, has not yet even begun to repent or to examine…
- Just as the thought of fire does not warm the body, so faith without love does not actualize the light of spiritual knowledge in the…
- Let us be satisfied simply with what sustains our present life, not with what pampers it. Let us pray to God for this, as we…
- If the words of God are uttered merely as verbal expressions, and their message is not rooted in the virtuous way of life of those…
- Just as the light of the sun attracts a healthy eye, so through love knowledge of God naturally draws to itself a pure intellect.
- He who has not yet attained divine knowledge energized by love is proud of his spiritual progress. But he who has been granted such knowledge…
- Peace is truly the complete and undisturbed possession of what is desired.
- You will be able to check envy if you rejoice with the man whom you envy whenever he rejoices, and grieve whenever he grieves.
- He who asks to receive his daily bread does not automatically receive it in its fullness as it is in itself: he receives it according…
- When you are insulted by someone or humiliated, guard against angry thoughts, lest they arouse a feeling of irritation, and so cut you off from…
- He who has realized love for God in his heart is tireless in his pursuit of the Lord his God, and bears every hardship, reproach…
- Every genuine confession humbles the soul. When it takes the form of thanksgiving, it teaches the soul that it has been delivered by the grace…
- If you make provision for the desires of the flesh and bear a grudge against your neighbor on account of something transitory, you worship the…
- The person who loves God cannot help loving every man as himself, even though he is grieved by the passions of those who are not…
- If everything that exists was made by God and for God, and God is superior to the things made by Him, he who abandons what…
- For him who is perfect in love and has reached the summit of dispassion there is no difference between his own or another's, or between…
- Many have said much about love, but you will find love itself only if you seek it among the disciples of Christ. For only they…
- He has as yet no perfect love, whose disposition towards men depends on what they are like, loving one and despising another for this or…
- When what has been created in time according to the temporal order has reached maturity, it ceases from natural growth. But when what has been…
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