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.

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.

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.

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

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?”

One of the brothers visited Father Silvanus at Mount Sinai, and when he saw the brothers devoted to work, he said to the sheikh: “Do not work for stale food.”

Bishop Ammonius the bishop: One of the brothers asked him to say a word to him, and the sheikh said: “Go and always imagine in your mind the evildoers.”

It was said that they were seven brothers from the same family. All of them became Scetis monks. When the Berbers came and destroyed the Sqit in the first batch,

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.