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St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925
201. Rule 201: How Can One Secure Attention in Prayer? (R. 108)
By being fully convinced that he is in God’s presence. For if when one sees a ruler or superior and talks with him, one’s eyes remain intent, how much more will he who prays to God have his mind intent, seeing that God tries the hearts and reins, and fulfil the passage of Scripture: ‘Lifting up holy hands, without wrath and disputings.”1
Notes
- 1 Tim. ii. 8 διαλογισμῶν for διαλογισμοῦ.