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"Our prayer reflects our attitude towards God. He who is careless of salvation has a different attitude toward God from him who has abandoned sin and is zealous for virtue but has not yet entered within himself and works for the Lord only outwardly. Finally, he who has entered within and carries the Lord within himself, standing before Him, has yet another attitude. The first man is negligent in prayer, just as he is negligent in life, and he prays in church and at home merely according to the established custom, without attention or feeling. The second man reads many prayers and goes often to church, trying at the same time to keep his attention from wandering and to experience feelings in accordance with the prayers which are read, although he is seldom successful. The third man, wholly concentrated within, stands with his mind before God, and prays to Him in his heart without distraction, without long verbal prayers, even when standing for a long time at prayer in his home or in church.... Every prayer must come from the heart and any other prayer is no prayer at all. Prayer-book prayers, your own prayers and very short prayers, all must issue forth from the heart to God, seen before you."

- St. Theophan the Recluse

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Strive to walk worthily of the vocation to which you were called.

St. Philotheus of Sinai

Quietness

We must strive after a quiet mind.

St. Basil the Great

Laziness

Don't get lazy, and don't let time pass, for you will not recover the time that you waste idly everyday.

Elder Joseph the Hesychast

Laziness

He who does nothing while being able to work should not eat either.

St. Basil the Great

Laziness

St. Paisius Velichkovsky

Quietness

Grow calm, grow quiet after harmful noise... you will experience a certain movement towards eternity; gradually, like a still, small voice, a thought will come to you as to who you are and what is your end and purpose... this is a sign of the approach of the word of God in your soul.

St. Tikhon of Zadonsk

"Pray before your body takes rest on your bed... If you are tempted, make the Sign (of the Cross) on your forehead reverently… for this is a known and tested weapon against the Devil."

St. Hippolytus of Rome

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