120. Happy is the spirit that attains to complete unconsciousness of all sensible experience at the time of prayer. - Evagrius Ponticus

150. Just as sight is the most worthy of the sense, so also is prayer the most divine of the virtues.

121. Happy is the man who thinks himself no better than dirt.

Once there was a meeting at The Cells about some matter and Abba Evagrius spoke. The priest said to him: “Abba Evagrius, we know that if you were in your homeland you would probably have been a bishop and the head of many [clergy]; but now you are living here as an alien.”
He was pricked in his conscience but not disturbed. Nodding his head, he said to him: “It is true, father; nevertheless, ‘I have spoken once; I will add nothing the second time’” (Job 40:5).