“120. Happy is the spirit that attains to complete unconsciousness of all sensible experience at the time of prayer.”Evagrius Ponticus Chapters on 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.”Evagrius Ponticus Chapters on Prayer
“119. Happy is the spirit that becomes free of all matter and is stripped of all at the time of prayer.”Evagrius Ponticus Chapters on Prayer
“There was a time when evilness did not exist, and there will be a time when it will no more exist, whereas there was no time when virtue did not exist, and there will be no time when it will not exist. For the germs of virtue are impossible to destroy.”Evagrius Ponticus Kephalaia Gnostika 1.40