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613–700 Qatar
Isaac of Nineveh (c. 613 – c. 700), also known as Saint Isaac the Syrian, Abba Isaac, Isaac Syrus and Isaac of Qatar, was a 7th-century Syriac Christian bishop and theologian best remembered for his written works on Christian asceticism.
Also known as: Isaac the Syrian, Saint Isaac of Nineveh, Saint Isaac the Syrian
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Love is the offspring of knowledge of the truth which, as is commonly confessed, is given to all.
The man who follows Christ in solitary mourning is greater than he who praises Christ amid the congregations of men.
Question Whence does a man perceive that he has attained to humility?
The soul that loves God finds rest only in God.
On the sequence of ways by which the mind is steered towards the glorious things pertaining to God.
Life in the world is like a manuscript of writings that is still in rough draft.
O, how evil for hesychasts is the sight of men and intercourse with them!
There was a time when that there was no name for God, and there is going to be when he will not have one.
There are times when a person is transported from prayer to a wondrous meditation on God.
Moreover, from time to time they [the angels] appeared to them to teach them how they ought to lead their lives.
All of these realities are within the light of the mind.
Again he was asked, ‘How can a man acquire humility?’
By prayer I do not mean only the fixed Hours, the Hullale of the psalter and the liturgical hymns.
Or maybe there is someone who imagines that the level and the stirring of spiritual prayer consists in one of these things.
The non-intellectual light is the light that belongs to the elements.
Prayer, however, is lower in rank than being stirred in spirit: on this there is no dispute, for prayer is inferior to this mystery.
Now is there yet another place above where creation has ascended?
Once an elder was asked, ‘What is repentance?’
For every event, natural being and utterance in this creation there is a Sanctuary and a Holy of Holies.
Thus, as I have said, there are many paths for this converse which exists with God in stillness
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