Quotes from Evagrius Ponticus

Blessed is the one who has arrived at infinite ignorance.

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

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

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.

Prayer is the laying aside of thoughts.

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

Prayer is the fruit of joy and thankfulness.

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

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.

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