Evagrius Ponticus - Pray Quotes

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You will not be able to pray purely if you are all involved with material affairs and agitated with unremitting concerns. For prayer is the rejection of conceptions.

Evagrius Ponticus

Do you wish to pray? Renounce all things. You then will become heir to all.

Evagrius Ponticus

First of all pray to be purified from your passions. Secondly, pray to be delivered from ignorance. Thirdly, pray to be freed from all temptation and abandonment.

Evagrius Ponticus