“A serious ailment of the modern Christian is the habit of praying absentmindedly, uncollectedly, more with the lips and fingers than with the mind and heart…Canons and akathists are read, prostrations are made, the services go on for hours, and the soul remains dark and damp from the passions comfortably hiding in the depths of a heart unenlightened by the Spirit of God. “
(Archpriest Artemy Vladimirov in orthochristian.com)