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“Antony said to Poemen, ‘Our great work is to lay the blame for our sins upon ourselves before God, and to expect to be tempted to our last breath.”
― The Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian Monks
― The Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian Monks
“When Poemen was asked how he dealt with any brother who fell asleep during public prayer, he replied, ‘I put his head upon my knees and help him to rest.”
― The Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian Monks
― The Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian Monks
“Nothing is so sure as the final oblivion.”
― The Dwarf
― The Dwarf
“Mathois said, ‘The nearer a man comes to God, the more he sees himself to be a sinner. Isaiah the prophet saw the Lord and knew himself to be wretched and unclean (Is. 6:5).”
― The Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian Monks
― The Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian Monks
“Two hermits lived together for many years without a quarrel. One said to the other, ‘Let’s have a quarrel with each other, as is the way of men.’ The other answered, ‘I don’t know how a quarrel happens.’ The first said, ‘Look here, I put a brick between us, and I say, That’s mine. Then you say, No, it’s mine. That is how you begin a quarrel.’ So they put a brick between them, and one of them said, ‘That’s mine.’ The other said, ‘No; it’s mine.’ He answered, ‘Yes, it’s yours. Take it away.’ They were unable to argue with each other.26”
― The Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian Monks
― The Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian Monks
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