Care And Prayer

Εἶπεν ὁ ἀββᾶς Θεόδωρος ὁ τῶν Ἐννάτου, ὅτι Ἐὰν λογίσηται ἡμῖν ὁ Θεὸς τὰς ἐν ταῖς εὐχαϊς ἀμελείας, καὶ τὰς αἰχμαλωσίας τὰς ἐν ταῖς ψαλμῳδίαις, οὐ δυνάμεθα σωθῆναι. Ἀποφθεγματα Των Ἁγίων Γερόντων, Παλλαδιος Migne PG 65 197

Father Theodore of Enaton said, 'If God accounts us careless in our prayers and as a crowd of captives in our Psalms, we cannot be saved.' Sayings of the Desert Fathers, Palladius of Galatia