Prayer is converse with God, equal honor with the Angels, progress in good things, averting of evils, righting of sinners.

Scripture brought me to the Gate of Paradise, and the mind stood in wonder as it entered.

Blessed the one who meditates on death each day and destroys the base passions lurking in the vines of the heart, for he will be consoled in the moment of separation.

Blessed the one who loves truth continually and has not lent his mouth as an instrument of impiety by lying, for he fears the commandment about idle speech.

Prayer is converse with God, equal honor with the Angels, progress in good things, averting of evils, righting of sinners.

It is blasphemy if you pray before God while you are full of anger.

They went down to Egypt and provided food when famine reigned; they came to the obstinate sea, and taught it wisdom with a rod; they went out into the hostile desert and adorned it with a pillar; they entered the furnace, fiercely heated, and sprinkled it with their dew; into the pit where they had been thrown an angel entered and taught its wild beasts to fast.