Book of Prayers

...to be nourished in the soul. To the teacher of many tales, he is an all-skilled student, who in this very volume combined the rational art with the divine, the theoretical theology with the mystical, the historical narrative of the Holy Scriptures with the exegetical, the spirit of prayer with the poetic, fear with love, hope with repentance, and the evils of man with the goodness of God. In one word: he united God with man. He became indeed a scribe-disciple of the new kingdom, bringing forth from the treasury of his heart the honey of new-made creation and the old wine of divine love.

Let no other Greece boast of her Orpheus or Homer, and no Italy of Virgil or Ovid; for a blessed Gregory has arisen for the Armenians who is more sublime than they. He knew how to make the rebellious spirit of poetry obey under the yoke of the divine spirit. And that which used to flutter under the heavenly ox for the harmful pleasure of men, he dared to cause to fly back into the very heavens, there to sweeten melodies delightful to the hearing of God and the angels.