Maqara al-Katib said: I wanted to enter the city of Alexandria to fulfill some of my needs, and when I entered the city, a man I did not know met me outside.

Abba Daniel was once walking with his student on a road, and when they approached a place called Armon of Medina, he said to his student: “Go

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?”

He also said: “If we loved God as we love our friends, we would be blessed, because I saw someone who grieved his friend, and he did not even find peace.”

They mentioned about one of the brothers that he was next door to a distinguished sheikh, so he used to enter his cell every day and steal what he found.

There was a man named Dakias who lived in a mountain in Jerusalem. He did not pray with anyone at all, and suddenly he dared to serve the Mass.

Question: “Tell me, Father, how a person monitors his heart, how he fights against Satan, and whether he should block the entrance to speech.”

Abba Sissawis Al-Saidi: It was said about him that he was living in Ghaydah, and another old man was sick in Al-Siq, and when he heard that, he was sad, because

A sheikh said: “I know a person from the people of Al-Qalali who fasted the entire Easter Friday, so when the time for the meeting was on the eve of...