Words from the Saints -- July 30, 2020
Gerald Largent
"My children, desire to purify your hearts from envy and from anger with each other, lest death should overcome you, and you will be counted among the murderers. For whosoever hates his brother, kills a soul." --St. Anthony the Great
"Prayer is food for the soul. Do not starve the soul, it is better to let the body go hungry." --St. Joseph of Optina
“How will it be with us in the future life, when everything that has gratified us in this world: riches, honors, food and drink, dress, beautifully furnished dwellings, and all attractive objects—how will it be, I say, when all these things leave us—when they will all seem to us a dream, and when works of faith and virtue, of abstinence, purity, meekness, humility, mercy, patience, obedience, and others will be required of us?” --St. John of Kronstadt
"Every day at nightfall, before sleep comes upon you, excite the judgment of your conscience, demand an account from it, and whatever evil counsels you may have taken during the day...pierce them, tear them to pieces, and do penance for them." --St. John Chrysostom
"Control your urges before they control you." --St. John Climacus