"For us let it be enough to know ourselves to be in the place where God wants us, and carry on our work, even though it be no more than the work of an ant, infinitesimally small, and with unforeseeable results."
-- Abbé Monchanin

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Quote for the Day



Abba Isaiah questioned Abba Poemen on the subject of impure thoughts.  Abba Poemen said to him, 'It is like having a chest full of clothes, if one leaves them in disorder they are spoiled in the course of time.  It is the same with thoughts.  If we do not do anything about them, in time they are spoiled, that is to say, they disintegrate.'
-- Sayings of the Desert Fathers





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