At the proper times and in due measure.
“Evagrius said, ‘A wandering mind is strengthened by reading, and prayer. Passion is dampened down by hunger and work and solitude. Anger is repressed by psalmody and long-suffering and mercy. But all these should be at the proper times and in due measure.”
Benedicta Ward, The Sayings of the Desert Fathers.
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