The sayings of the Desert Fathers
by Benedicta Ward · first published 1984
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I strongly recommend Thomas Merton’s translation and excerpts of Sayings of the Desert Fathers, as well. “these were men who believed that to let oneself drift along, passively accepting the tenets and values of what they knew as society, was purely and simply a disaster.“
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