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

They talked about a free, chaste, and quiet virgin in her home. A bad young man fell in love with her, and he did not stop coming to her house. When the virgin felt

A chaste mouth speaks good things, pleases its owner, and brings joy to its listeners. He whose speech is orderly and chaste, and who is pure in his heart, is a son of the inheritance of Christ.

Let the brother who stays with you be like a son and a disciple, and if he makes a mistake and spoils something, admonish him and reveal to him his mistake so that he does not return.

It was said that one of the fathers was sitting in the distant prairie and was silent, and one day his student asked him, saying: “Why, father?”

This saint from the people of Egypt was one of the fathers famous for his virtue, and he was known as Al-Sabani, because during all his time he did not wear clothes.

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

Saint Macarius the Great said: “When you begin to pray, be careful to be steadfast lest you deliver your vessel into the hands of your enemies. Because they desire kidnapping

It was reported from Saint Arsanius that he was from Great Rome and was one of its best philosophers. His father was one of the nobles of the court close to me