Clergyman's

118. Happy is the spirit which, praying with distraction, goes on increasing its desire for God.
- Evagrius Ponticus

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 .
- Evagrius Ponticus

Do not desire wealth for giving to the poor.
- Evagrius Ponticus