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Give Me a Word: The Alphabetical Sayings of the Desert Fathers is unavailable, but you can change that!

When Christians first began living as monks in the Egyptian desert at the beginning of the fourth century, they had few books and almost no learning. As they gained experience, they concentrated that experience in the form of an oral tradition of tales and sayings (apophthegmata). Apart from the Scriptures (also learned by heart) this was the only training manual they had. Consequently, when the...

one natural, another from indiscriminate feeding, the third from demons.” Antony 23 [10.5] He also said: “God does not allow there to be battles against this generation such as there were in the time of those of old; for he knows these are weak and cannot sustain it.” Antony 24 [18.1] It was revealed to Abba Antony in the desert: “There is somebody in the city like you, a physician by profession, who provides those in need with his superfluous income and is singing Holy, holy, holy with the angels
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