From this inner conversation (you can do it if you wish), give it the following short prayer: “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me!” and compel it, in place of all other thoughts, to have only this one constant cry within. If you do this continually, with your whole attention, this practice will in time open for you the way to the heart which I have described. There can be no doubt about this, for we have proved it ourselves by experience.
This is an excerpt from a book Profitable Discourses on Sobriety by Nicephorous.
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