This is the chaste order beloved of the Lord: let a person’s eyes not wander here and there, let him look only ahead of him, let him not speak […]

Abba Youssef said to Abba Besir: “I cannot control my tongue.” The sheikh said: “If you speak, you will not feel comfortable.”

An old man said: “If you sit in your cell, do not be like a grave full of impurities, but be like a vessel full of precious gold.

A brother asked an old man: “O father, I desire to protect my heart.” The sheikh said to him: “How can you guard your heart and your mouth, which...

From the biography of Father Pachomius: At some point, while Pachomius was with Father Plamon, a monk who was overcome by vanity came to them.

Thieves came to a cell during prayer time, so the priest said to the brothers: “Let them do their work, and we will do our work.” A brother said to an old man: “Why?”

Saint Dorotheos said: There is nothing worse than judgment for man, because because of it he advances to evils and dwells in evils. So whoever condemns

It was reported that Father Eladius lived in Scetis for twenty years in a cell. He did not raise his eyes to look at its ceiling, and his food was always bread and salt.

This man went to an old man, Tabaisi, who was residing in the wilderness, and he became his disciple. It happened that his teacher gave him a dry branch and commanded him to

He said: O Beloved, if you have left the false world and brought yourself closer to God in order to repent for your past sins, then beware of turning back from what you did.