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This work gathers together several sayings from the early Desert Fathers and monastics of the Church. The sayings are topically arranged, covering charity, humility, discretion, fasting, poverty, obedience, avoiding the praise of men, anger, avoiding many words, evil thoughts, and more.

the hungry and the bedsides of those who suffer even loathsomely; we build libraries and schools, being sure at least of this, that in doing these things we follow Him. To all these various ideals Christ has been found entirely responsive. Each has found in Him a starting-point from which to escape the bondage of materialism. It has never, of course, been true that one great purpose has possessed the followers of Christ to the exclusion of every other. The conception of the gospel liberty lay quite
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