SO GOOD QUOTES

Saint Antony, at the beginning of his monastic life, sought counsel from the ascetics and was like the bee, sucking nectar from every flower. Many are those who seek wisdom from one person and become a carbon copy of them, but Saint Antony learned asceticism from one person, prayer from a second one, meekness from a third, cheerfulness from a fourth, knowledge from a fifth, etc.

—H.H. Pope Shenouda III, Characteristics of the Spiritual Path