Evagrius Ponticus on Religion
Browse 7 quotations attributed to Evagrius Ponticus, catalogued under Religion, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Evagrius Ponticus, entry #218132: "150. Just as sight is the most worthy of the sense, so also is prayer the most divine of the virtues."
Attributed to Evagrius Ponticus, entry #190975: "118. Happy is the spirit which, praying with distraction, goes on increasing its desire for God."
7 Quotes by Evagrius Ponticus on Religion
"150. Just as sight is the most worthy of the sense, so also is prayer the most divine of the virtues."
"118. Happy is the spirit which, praying with distraction, goes on increasing its desire for God."
"120. Happy is the spirit that attains to complete unconsciousness of all sensible experience at the time of prayer."
"117. 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."
"123. Happy is the monk who considers all men as god — after God."
"35. Prayer is an ascent of the spirit to God."
"52. To separate the body from the soul is the privilege of only of the One who has joined them together. But to separate the soul from the body lies as well in the power of the man who pursues virtue. For our Fathers gave to the meditation of death and to the flight from the body a spiritual name: anachoresis ."