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Isaac of Nineveh on Prayer

613–700 Qatar

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There are times when a person is transported from prayer to a wondrous meditation on God.

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.

Prayer, however, is lower in rank than being stirred in spirit: on this there is no dispute, for prayer is inferior to this mystery.

Therefore, as I have said, one must not call this gift and grace spiritual prayer

Let the following prayer not cease from your heart night or day

Luminous meditation on God is the goal of prayer

That the intellect should standing during the office or in prayer continually, again and again

When it sometimes happens that a person is held worthy of prayer of fervour as a result of the surging of grace

When he is held worthy of the prayer of understanding

Prayer does not consist only of the repeating

The sweetness of prayer is one thing

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Isaac of Nineveh (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.