SO GOOD QUOTES

Many are the sins which are able to enter through the eye of a needle. The devil, for example, does not ask you not to pray, only to delay it. If he finds that you are accustomed to prayer, then when you wake up he will say to you, “Wait until you have washed your face.” Before you awaken, he has placed in your mind any thoughts to occupy you and make you forget, and many other things to delay you. As for you, do not give him a chance, but continue in your prayers, even while you are going to wash your face. Be very careful, then, and avoid the first step that leads you into negligence and laxity, or causes you to sin.

—H.H. Pope Shenouda III, The Life of Repentance and Purity