Four words about prayer. Saint Theophanes Recluse

The Holy Fathers called prayer the highest art and science from science. “Four words about prayer” by St. Theophan the Recluse can be called a self -employer for this very main work on earth, in which tips for those who want to learn to pray are briefly and systematized. Saint Theophanes explains what prayer is, describes the degree of climbing steps, gives ways to educating a prayer spirit in itself and indicates the goal for which the prayer book works, is the limit of prayer, which is the reward for labor and at the same time the key that the gates are opened in the kingdom of heaven.