Always begin with a prayer

We must begin with a prayer before everything we do, but especially when we are about to talk of God. We will not pull down to ourselves that power which is both everywhere and yet nowhere, but by divine reminders and invocations, we may commend ourselves to it and be joined to it.



(The Divine Names, Pseudo-Dioynsius, late 5/early 600 CE) cf. Acts17:34)