- Stand resolute, fully intent on your prayer. Pay no heed to the concerns and thoughts that might arise the while. They do nothing better than disturb and upset you so as to dissolve the fixity of your purpose.- When the devils see that you are really fervent in your prayer they suggest certain matters to your mind, giving you the impression that there are pressing concerns demanding attention. In a little while they stir up your memory of these matters and move your mind to search into them.
- Prayer is the fruit of joy and of thanksgiving...
- Do not pray by outward gestures only, but bend your mind as well to the perception of spiritual prayer with great fear.
- Prayer is an ascent of the mind to God...
- Happy is the mind that becomes free of all matter and is stripped of all at the time of prayer.
- When you give yourself to prayer, rise above every other joy - then you will find true prayer.
