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...

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.

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.

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?”