Evagrius Ponticus - Prayer Quotes

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Let me repeat this saying of mine that I once expressed on some other occasions: Happy is the spirit that attains to the perfect formlessness at the time of prayer.

Evagrius Ponticus

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.

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Happy is the spirit that becomes free of all matter and is stripped of all at the time of prayer.

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When you give yourself to prayer, rise above every other joy — then you will find true prayer.

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Happy is the spirit that attains to complete unconsciousness of all sensible experience at the time of prayer.

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Just as sight is the most worthy of the sense, so also is prayer the most divine of the virtues.

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