Finding the Freedom to Live

Life in Christ frees us to build intimacy with integrity

  • About
  • Resources
  • Themes
  • Contact
Copyright © 2025
[Privacy Policy]
[Terms of Service]
You are here: Home / Quotes / To pray: stand with your mind in your heart before God, always – St Theophan

To pray: stand with your mind in your heart before God, always – St Theophan

6 June 2016 By Andrew Leave a Comment

St Theophan the Recluse

Share this:

  • Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook

The principal thing is to stand with the mind in the heart before God, and to go on standing before Him unceasingly day and night, until the end of life.

— Igumen Chariton of Valamo: /The Art of Prayer: An Orthodox Anthology/ p63

Share this:

  • Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook

Related

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Get the book

Keep in touch

Listen to the podcast

Search FtL

Love rejoices when others repent; but hatred is estrangement from God – St Maximos Share on X
The person who loves God cannot help loving every man as himself, even though he is grieved by the passions of those who are not yet… [ Read more ]
–St Maximos the Confessor

Follow us on Twitter

Post Tags

pornographyiconographyaddictionsexualitypassionsmarriagetemptationfreedomrepentancecrossprayerconfessionfantasysaintsfamilycommunion