The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Apophthegmata Patrum: 59 (Cistercian Studies Series)

`Give me a word Father visitors to early desert monks asked. The responses of these pioneer ascetics were remembered and in the fourth century written down in Coptic Syriac Greek and later Latin. Their Sayings were collected in this case in the alphabetical order of the monks and nuns who uttered them and read by generations of Christians as life-giving words that would help readers along the path to salvation.