SO GOOD QUOTES

Make me worthy, O Lord, to know you and love you, not with knowledge arising from studies and exercise to the intellect’s dispersion, but make me worthy of that knowledge whereby the intellect, in beholding you, glorifies your nature in divine vision which steals the awareness of the world from the mind.

—St Isaac the Syrian [Homilies 36, “On the Modes of Virtue,” in The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian, p 161]