Evagrius Quotes

#1. Prayer is the laying aside of thoughts.

Evagrius Ponticus

#2. Hardware: This is the part of the computer that stops working when you spill beer on it.

Dave Barry

#3. I'd rather send out a mass email then hang posters all over the place.

Todd Barry

#4. Evagrius said, 'A wandering mind is strengthened by reading, and prayer. Passion is dampened down by hunger and work and solitude. Anger is repressed by psalmody and long-suffering and mercy. But all these should be at the proper times and in due measure.

Benedicta Ward

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

Evagrius Ponticus

#6. I just want to do the least work in the least time and make the most money.

Pamela Anderson

#7. When love is new, it's brighter than the sun and 30 times as great as the force of the atomic bomb dropped and felt from your heart, but to some people it will slowly fade but to me it will always be the same.

Auliq Ice

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

Evagrius Ponticus

#9. 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.

Evagrius Ponticus

#10. Terrorism is usually fueled by poverty, and the fanatical faith of the terrorists who truly believe that the more people they kill who do not subscribe to their faith, the greater their reward in heaven.

Jane Goodall

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

Evagrius Ponticus

#12. 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.

Evagrius Ponticus

#13. I've done two albums for Concord Records; one was with Al Jarreau and it did very well for us. The second album was called 'Songs And Stories,' and it had good songs and good performances, but I promised them I would do an album that was more jazz-oriented.

George Benson

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

Evagrius Ponticus

#15. Root for the girls who wear dresses and are intellectually very strong.

Sophie Turner

#16. Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

Oscar Wilde

#17. The universe and its design is often one of arbitrary horror.

Laird Barron

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

Evagrius Ponticus

#19. All conceptions in the game of chess have a geometrical basis.

Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

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

Evagrius Ponticus

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

Evagrius Ponticus

#22. 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.

Evagrius Ponticus

#23. Anger, [Evagrius] wrote, is given to us by God to help us confront true evil. We err when we use it casually, against other people, to gratify our own desires for power or control.

Kathleen Norris

#24. 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.

Evagrius Ponticus

#25. The coin turns; where it falls, nobody knows.
The coin turns, empires rise and empires fall, men live and men die, babies scream and dead men sigh; the world changes but people are always and are never the same.

Claire North

#26. I wanted to be a veterinarian until I saw a video of a vet performing surgery on a dog. Then I decided I wanted to be a pianist.

Amy Lee

#27. The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Robert Frost

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

Evagrius Ponticus

#29. And in those moments, Park thought about pulling back from her.
Not breaking up with her. That phrase didn't even seem to apply here. Just ... erasing away. Recovering the six inches between them

Rainbow Rowell

#30. Evagrius said, 'Cut the desire for many things out of your heart and so prevent your mind being dispersed and your stillness lost.

Benedicta Ward