Top 20 Ponticus Quotes

#1. Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus?

Juvenal

Ponticus Quotes #308759
#2. After he routed Pharnaces Ponticus at the first assault, he wrote thus to his friends: I came, I saw, I conquered.

Plutarch

Ponticus Quotes #187325
#3. He keeps whispering, "You're okay," and I simultaneously love him and hate him for saying that. I'm fucking not okay at all. And yet it's exactly what I most want to be: okay. He can't give that to me, but I love him for trying.

Matthew Quick

Ponticus Quotes #1806883
#4. If you patiently accept what comes, you will always pray with joy.

Evagrius Ponticus

Ponticus Quotes #1690440
#5. Only the Paranoid Survive...

Andrew Grove

Ponticus Quotes #1418782
#6. 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

Ponticus Quotes #1364218
#7. 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

Ponticus Quotes #1311567
#8. Prayer is the fruit of joy and thankfulness.

Evagrius Ponticus

Ponticus Quotes #1287250
#9. Blessed is the one who has arrived at infinite ignorance.

Evagrius Ponticus

Ponticus Quotes #1255386
#10. 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

Ponticus Quotes #1069936
#11. There was a good deal of laughing, and kissing, and explaining, in the simple, loving fashion which makes these home festivals so pleasant at the time, so sweet to remember long afterward, then all fell to work.
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott

Ponticus Quotes #941883
#12. God cannot be grasped by the mind. If he could be grasped, he would not be God.

Evagrius Ponticus

Ponticus Quotes #751759
#13. 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

Ponticus Quotes #722018
#14. Happy is the spirit that attains to the perfect formlessness at the time of prayer.

Evagrius Ponticus

Ponticus Quotes #721630
#15. 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

Ponticus Quotes #474759
#16. A monk is a man who considers himself one with all men because he seems constantly to see himself in every man.

Evagrius Ponticus

Ponticus Quotes #359991
#17. Freedom and peace is even sweeter than wealth and honors.

E.D.E.N. Southworth

Ponticus Quotes #346511
#18. The further the soul advances, the greater are the adversaries against which it must contend.

Evagrius Ponticus

Ponticus Quotes #258329
#19. Prayer is the laying aside of thoughts.

Evagrius Ponticus

Ponticus Quotes #110420
#20. We need to get insurance out of the way and let the consumer interact with their doctor the way they did basically before World War II,

Rand Paul

Ponticus Quotes #22

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