Abstinence from the Passions How to Acquire True Faith That Stillness is of Great Benefit to those Subject to Passion The Great Benefit ofTrue Repentance God's Universal and Particular Gifts How God has done All Things for our Benefit How God's Speech is not Loose Chatter How it is Impossible to be Saved without Humility On Building up the Soul through the Virtues The Great Value of Love and of Advice given with Humility That the Frequent Repetition found in Divine Scripture is not Verbosity Spurious Knowledge A List of the Virtues A List of the Passions The Difference between Thoughts and Provocations Book 2: Twenty-Four Discourses (which correspond to the twenty-four letters of the Greek alphabet) Spiritual Wisdom The Two Kinds of Faith The Two Kinds of Fear True Piety and Self-Control Patient Endurance Hope Detachment Mortification of the Passions The Remembrance of Christ's Sufferings Humility Discrimination Contemplation of the Sensible World Knowledge of the Angelic Orders Dispassion Love Knowledge of God Moral Judgment Self-Restraint Courage Justice Peace Joy Holy Scripture Conscious Awareness in the Heart Editing The compilers of the Philokalia slightly edited the writings of Peter, which although it does not alter the text significantly, occasionally shortens it. For example, the manuscript supplies the line:Λέω όχι στη λαιμαργία και την πορνεία, για χάρη του αυτοκυριαρχίας. Και η ψυχή απωθείται από τα ίδια της τα μάτια, η επιθυμία για μυρωδιές. και περιττά λεφτά (...gluttony and unchastitythrough self-control; and the sweet-smelling soul itself is being thrown off by the desire of food; and superfluous possessions...)While the Philokalia renders it shortened as:Λέω όχι στη λαιμαργία και στην πορνεία και στα περιττά χρήματα, αρκούμενος σε εδώ, σύμφωνα με τον Απόστολο. (...gluttony, unchastity and superfluous possessionsand so that we may be content with what we have, as the apostle puts it.)Additionally, in places where a quote is misattributed by Peter, the text of the Philokalia often does not print the misattribution. Lists of Virtues and Passions Peter of Damascus provides two exhaustive lists of virtues (228 in total) and passions (298 in total). These lists exist is book one in the Philokalia. Select quotations All quotes are translations of the original Greek, taken from The Philokalia: The Complete Text compiled by St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain and St. Makarios of Corinth, translated by Palmer, Sherrard, and Ware. Knowledge comes like light from the sun. The foolish man through lack of faith