SO GOOD QUOTES

The purely intellectual thinking that is void of the work of the Spirit does not produce contemplation… It might produce knowledge or philosophy, but not contemplation.

There is a difference between a scholar and a worshipper, between the one who studies and the one who contemplates, between the one who searches the books and the one who receives from the Spirit.

Contemplation is not just a thought. It is mixing the thought with the heart, then leaving the heart as a tool in the hand of the spirit. Then the spirit prays to take from the Spirit of God. And what the spirit takes is given to the mind through the heart.

—H.H. Pope Shenouda III, The Spiritual Means