With tears we sow seeds of prayer in the earth of the heart, hoping to reap the harvest in joy. - Diadochos of Photiki

No one can love God consciously in his heart unless he has first feared Him with all his heart. Through the action of fear the soul is purified and, as it were, made malleable and so it becomes awakened to the action of love.

The perceptive faculty natural to our soul is single, but it is split into two distinct modes of operation as a result of Adam's disobedience.

The eye of the soul cannot be led astray when its veil, by which I mean the body, is refined to near-transparency through self-control.