If your spirit still looks around at the time of prayer, then it does not yet pray as a monk. You are no better… — Evagrius Ponticus Copy Share Image
God cannot be grasped by the mind. If he could be grasped, he would not be God. — Evagrius Ponticus Copy Share Image
Happy is the spirit that attains to the perfect formlessness at the time of prayer. — Evagrius Ponticus Copy Share Image
... we should not worry about clothes or food? Such anxiety is a mark of? unbelievers, who reject the providence of the Lord and deny the Creator. An attitude of this kind is entirely wrong for Christians who believe that even? sparrows? are under the care of the holy angels (cf. Mt. 10:29). The demons, however? suggest worries of this… — Evagrius Ponticus Copy Share
The Holy Spirit, out of compassion for our weakness, comes to us even when we are impure. And if He finds our intellect truly… — Evagrius Ponticus Copy Share Image
Provide yourself with such work for your hands as can be done, if possible, both during the day and at night, so that you… — Evagrius Ponticus Copy Share Image
A monk is a man who considers himself one with all men because he seems constantly to see himself in every man. — Evagrius Ponticus Copy Share Image
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)… — Evagrius Ponticus Copy Share Image
He who has mastery over his incensive power has mastery also over the demons. But anyone who is a slave to it is a… — Evagrius Ponticus Copy Share Image
