"Prayer is the laying aside of thoughts."

-- Evagrius Ponticus

“There have been men before â€¦ who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himselfâ€¦ as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist. There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.”
“If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we'll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy.”

Source : Jean Genet (1960). “The Balcony: (Le Balcon) a Play in Nine Scenes”
“Mitchell claimed that her materialist view leads to â€œhumbleness.â€ But it is not humbling; it is dehumanizing. It essentially reduces humans to robots.”
“Few parents are aware of the difficulties that beset the minds of the little philosophers and theologians who sit upon their knees or play at their feet; and many a parent could not comprehend the disturbance, if he were aware of it.”
“I LOVE my friends neither with my heart nor with my mind. Just in case... HEART might stop. MIND can forget. I Love them with my Soul. SOUL never stops or forgets.”
“I hate being told what to do! Especially by myself!”
“When you're talking about death, you can't afford to make even one mistake.”
“It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.”

Source : William Gaddis (1955). “The Recognitions: A Novel”, Harcourt

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