Wednesday of Lent Week 1

"Be strenuous in prayer at all time before God, with a heart full of chaste deliberations mingled with passion, then He will preserve your mind from impure thoughts, so that the way of God be not disordered in you. Occupy your gaze with constant intercourse with intelligent recitation [of the scriptures], lest, on account of idleness, the sight of foreign things defile your look" (from The Mystical Treatises of St. Isaac of Niniveh, Homily 2, 14).