Should we be content with prayer only and neglect learning?

The answer

Abba Dorotheos says, “If you wish that thoughts, holy in faith, should in time of need have a calming action in arresting wrong movements, thoughts, and feelings, study them always, frequently going over them in your mind—and I have faith in God that you will find peace. Also intersperse your prayer with study. Try to make progress in this, so that at a moment of bodily or spiritual affliction you may be able to suffer it without grief, without oppression and with patience.”¹⁰⁶

Fr. Tadros Yacoub Malaty