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Saint John Climacus (Greek: Ἰωάννης τῆς Κλίμακος; Latin: Ioannes Climacus), also known as John of the Ladder, John Scholasticus and John Sinaites, was a 6th-7th-century Christian monk at the monastery on Mount Sinai. He is revered as a saint by the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic churches.

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When you hear that your neighbor or friend has reproached you in your absence or presence, then show love and praise him.

Absence, Christian, Hear, Inspirational, Neighbor, Religious

Even though one is well advanced in virtue, should he stop mortifying himself, he soon would lose his modesty and virtue - just as fertile soul quickly becomes dry and arid and produces nothing but thorns and thistles if it is not cultivated.

Attachment, Dry, Produces, Quickly, Soul, Virtue

The friend of silence comes close to God.

Spiritual, Silence, Friend, Close, God

Confession is like a bridle that keeps the soul which reflects on it from committing sin, but anything left unconfessed we continue to do without fear as if in the dark.

Catholic, Committing, Dark, Fear, Soul

Become aware of God, in whose presence you are while you pray. . . Then take a formula of prayer and recite it with perfect attention both to the words you are saying and to the Person to whom you are saying them.

Perfect, Pray, Prayer, Spiritual, Take

As long as anger lives, it continues to be the fruitful parent of many unhappy children.

Anger, Children, Continues, Lives, Long, Unhappy

It can happen that when we are at prayer some brothers come to see us. Then we have to choose either to interrupt our prayer or to sadden our brother by refusing to answer him. But love is greater than prayer. Prayer is one virtue among others, whereas love contains them all.

Spiritual, Brother, Prayer, Virtue, Brothers, Contains

The offspring of virtue is perseverance. The fruit and offspring of perseverance is habit and child of habit is character.

Character, Child, Children, Habit, Perseverance, Virtue

Faith furnishes prayer with wings, without which it cannot soar to Heaven.

Heaven, Prayer, Soar, Wings

Humility is the only thing that no devil can imitate.

Devil, Humility, Pride, Thing

Obedience is the burial of the will and the resurrection of humility.

Humility, Obedience, Resurrection

Do not be surprised if you fall every day and do not surrender. Stand your ground bravely and you may be sure that your guardian angel will respect your endurance. A fresh, warm wound is easier to heal than those that are old, neglected, and festering, and that need extensive treatment, surgery, bandaging and cauterization. Long neglect can render many of them incurable. However, all things are possible with God

Angel, Christian, Easier, Fall, God, Ground

Repentance lifts a man up. Mourning knocks at heaven's gate. Holy humility opens it.

Gate, Humility, Knocks, Men, Mourning

A discerning man, when he eats grapes, takes only the ripe ones and leaves the sour. Thus also the discerning mind carefully marks the virtues which he sees in any person. A mindless man seeks out the vices and failings. . . Even if you see someone sin with your own eyes, do not judge; for often even your eyes are deceived.

Christian, Grapes, Inspirational, Religious, Seeks, Sour

Do not regard the feelings of a person who speaks to you about his neighbor disparagingly, but rather say to him: "Stop, brother! I fall into graver sins every day, so how can I criticize him? In this way you will achieve two things; you will heal yourself and your neighbor with one plaster. This is one of the shortest ways to the forgiveness of sins; I mean, not to judge. `Judge not, and ye shall not be judged. "

Brother, Fall, Judge, Neighbor, Spiritual

It happens, I do not know how, that most of the proud never really discover their true selves. They think they have conquered their passions and they find out how poor they really are only after they die.

Die, Humility, Passion, Passions, Selves, Thinking

Everything is possible for the believer. I have watched impure souls mad for physical love but turning what they know of such love into a reason for penance and transferring that same capacity for love to the Lord. I have watched them master fear so as to drive themselves unsparingly toward the love of God. That is why, when talking of that chaste harlot, the Lord does not say, 'because she feared,' but rather, 'because she loved much' she was able to drive out love with love (Lk. 7:47).

Christian, Know, Mad, Master, Talking, Watched

Humility is constant forgetfulness of one's achievements.

Achievement, Constant, Forgetfulness, Humility

The lover of silence draws close to God. He talks to Him in secret and God enlightens him.

Enlightens, God, Prayer, Secret, Silence, Talks

Remembrance of Jesus' passion will heal your soul of resentment, by making it ashamed of itself when it remembers the patience of the Lord. Some people have wearied themselves and suffered for a long time in order to extract forgiveness. By far the best course, however, is to forget the offences, since the Lord says: "Forgive at once and you will be forgiven in generous measure. " (cf. Luke 6:37-38)

Forgiveness, Jesus, Passion, Patience, Generous, Suffered

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