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The Sayings of the Desert Fathers

Anonymous

Form
Form Religious Text
Year
Year 500 CE
Originally in
Originally in Greek
Pages
Pages 250

Go and sit in your cell, and your cell will teach you everything. That was one elder's entire counsel, and people crossed a desert to hear it.

The rule of the monk is this — to bear at all times his own blame.
The Sayings of the Desert Fathers, Anonymous

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