Liber locorum communium
Thursday, June 30, 2011
"Always give the bastards more credit than they deserve."
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"[Feynman] never showed the slightest resentment when I published some of his ideas before he did. He told me that he avoided disputes...
Number her saints and doctors
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Walk about Zion, go round about her, number her towers, consider well her ramparts, go through her citadels; that you may tell the...
Monday, June 27, 2011
Now do what is human, and flee
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"It was said concerning Abba Daniel, that when the barbarians invaded Scetis and the Fathers fled away, the old man said, 'If God d...
Sunday, June 26, 2011
"Correct and judge justly those who are subject to you"
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"A demoniac boy came one day to be healed, and some brothers from an Egyptian monastery arrived. As one old man was coming out to mee...
"'I have not yet become a monk myself, but I have seen monks.'"
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Collection syst ématique XX.4 (SC 498, pp. 164, 166) = Abba Macarius the Great 2 ( PG 65, cols. 260-261 ). The desert Christian: sa...
Don't try this at home
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Source "One of the Fathers related of Abba Sisoes of Calamon that, wishing to overcome sleep one day, he hung himself over the prec...
Vetus Testamentum in Novo
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"A brother asked Abba Sisoes the Theban, 'Give me a word,' and he said, 'What shall I say to you? I read the New Testament...
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