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Evagrios the Solitary / Quotes on Orthodoxy

“If you are sparing with your anger you will be spared.”

If you are sparing with your anger you will yourself be spared, and you will show your good sense and will be one of those who pray.

St. Evagrios the Solitary, on Prayer. Philokalia Vol. 1


Featured image: Metal cross in the Rostov Museum, 18th c. From the cupola of the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity in the Ipatevskii Monastery. Photographer Sergeĭ Mikhaĭlovich, 1911. Prokudin-Gorskiĭ Collection. Library of Congress