St Antony Quotes

“But in the desert, in the pure clean atmosphere, in the silence – there you can find yourself. And unless you begin to know yourself, how can you even begin to search for God?”
― Father Dioscuros

“It was a dictum of his that the soul's energy thrives when the body's desires are feeblest.”
― Athanasius of Alexandria, The Life Of St. Anthony

“Now I no longer fear God, I love him, for love casts out fear.”
― Benedicta Ward, The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection