Evagrius Ponticus Quotes

#1. Do not be troubled if you do not immediately receive from God what you ask Him; for He desires to do something even greater for you, while you cling to Him in prayer.

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#2. But the whole idea of knowledge, even, or especially, of oneself and one's own inner states, attained by direct contact and not dependent on theoretical and conceptual assumptions, is absurd.

Ernest Gellner

#3. If you patiently accept what comes, you will always pray with joy.

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#4. The Holy Spirit, out of compassion for our weakness, comes to us even when we are impure. And if He finds our intellect truly praying to Him, He enters it and puts to flight the whole array of thoughts and ideas circling within it, and He arouses it to a longing for spiritual prayer.

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#5. Remember how the Lord rebukes Martha when He says: 'You are anxious and troubled about many things: one thing alone is needful' (Lk. 10:41-42) ? to hear the divine word; after that, one should be content with anything that comes to hand.

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#6. Prayer is the fruit of joy and thankfulness.

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#7. Blessed is the one who has arrived at infinite ignorance.

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#8. A man who worships in Spirit and Truth no longer honors the Creator because of His works, but praises Him because of Himself.

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#9. I do not often laugh, sir," answered the unknown. "As you may yourself discover by the expression of my continence. But yet I mean to preserve the right of laughing when I please.

Alexandre Dumas

#10. [1768] The Billeting Act, which required the colonists to lodge and feed the British troops quartered among them, added fuel to the flames. In 1768 the New York legislature refused to comply, and Parliament suspended its legislative functions.

E. Benjamin Andrews

#11. God cannot be grasped by the mind. If he could be grasped, he would not be God.

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#12. I've been doing silly voices since I was a child.

Hank Azaria

#13. Once you start altering your body's blueprint, things start falling apart. Some players take steroids, and two years later, after they've broken records, suddenly they have back problems, shoulder problems, arm problems. They're out of the game for good.

Charlie Sheen

#14. Happy is the spirit that attains to the perfect formlessness at the time of prayer.

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#15. And I'm not fighting. My plan is to enjoy the food until you kick me out.

Kiera Cass

#16. I want you to be more than what I was and will ever be,

Durjoy Datta

#17. I'm clean and dope like heroin soap

Andy Milonakis

#18. Being a leading man can come in many different forms.

Jamie Dornan

#19. If your spirit still looks around at the time of prayer, then it does not yet pray as a monk. You are no better than a man of affairs engaged in a kind of landscape gardening.

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#20. A monk is a man who considers himself one with all men because he seems constantly to see himself in every man.

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#21. Excellence in life, is like a play. For your real life play, the quality of the actors you bring on your life's stage, determine your success. Always choose the best, most excellent actors.

Mark LaMoure

#22. The further the soul advances, the greater are the adversaries against which it must contend.

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#23. Prayer is the laying aside of thoughts.

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