Evagrius Ponticus Quotes

Provide yourself with such work for your hands as can be done, if possible, both during the day and at night, so that you are not a burden to anyone, and indeed can give to others, as St. Paul the Apostle advises (cf. I Thess. 2:9; Eph. 4:28). In this manner you will overcome the demon of listlessness and drive away all the desires suggested by the enemy; for the demon of listlessness takes advantage of idleness. 'Every idle man is full of desires' (Prov. 13:4 LXX).

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• I think I'm a lot like other moms out there who feel like if we don't have the pecan pie we have every year, then it just won't be Christmas.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Think
  • Christmas
  • Pie

• I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Try
  • Take Advantage

• I've already lived one full life, and so now I'm about to endeavor to see what else the good Lord has in store for me, and I'm wide open.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Me

• In 1944 James Arthur and Minnie Susan were added to the Marx household.

  

  Harpo Marx
  • Household
  • Arthur
  • Susan

• Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Light
  • Problems
  • Darkness

• Singing is a limitless form of expression, and I love to experiment with my work.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Work
  • Singing
  • Expression

• I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

  

  Jack London
  • Me
  • Planet
  • Glow

• Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Small
  • Land
  • Israel

• Well, more than me saying to the rest of the country music industry there is not enough traditional country music - that is not necessarily the statement in truth. I think more so that I, me, missed it more than anything else.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Music
  • Country
  • Truth

• But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • People
  • Trying
  • Ideas

• I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Never
  • Easy
  • Broke

• My father loved antique shops and shows, and quite a bit of my childhood involved outings to dim, dusty places packed with cast-off treasures.

  

  Gail Z. Martin
  • Father
  • Childhood
  • Loved

• Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Remember
  • Morning
  • Marriage

• I have a house in the Connecticut countryside where you'll always find me, summer or winter.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • House
  • Me
  • Summer

• We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Work
  • Live
  • Pride

• We are all born with God-given, unique traits and skills. But, as with all possibilities they will remain unrealized unless they are developed, nurtured, and put into practice. You may have the 'capacity' to love, but if left undeveloped, you will never gain the 'ability.'

  

  Leo Buscaglia
  • God
  • May
  • Practice

• When I started playing music, it was all face-to-face.

  

  Corin Tucker
  • Music

• Labor, but slight not meditation; meditate, but slight not labor.

  

  Confucius
  • Meditation
  • Labor
  • Slight

• Half the world is below average and it's not going to get any better.

  

  David Crabb
  • World
  • Better
  • Going

• When I was in high school, and even to a degree while I was in university, I wasn't on the Internet. So it's not as embedded in my soul, that kind of way of being.

  

  Sheila Heti
  • Soul
  • Kind
  • Internet

• I know that I shall die struggling for breath, and I know that I shall be horribly afraid. I know that I shall not be able to keep myself from regretting bitterly the life that has brought me to such a pass; but I disown that regret. I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Die

• Provide yourself with such work for your hands as can be done, if possible, both during the day and at night, so that you are not a burden to anyone, and indeed can give to others, as St. Paul the Apostle advises (cf. I Thess. 2:9; Eph. 4:28). In this manner you will overcome the demon of listlessness and drive away all the desires suggested by the enemy; for the demon of listlessness takes advantage of idleness. 'Every idle man is full of desires' (Prov. 13:4 LXX).

  

  Evagrius Ponticus
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