SO GOOD QUOTES

A brother asked an old man. ‘What shall I do, father, for I am not acting at all like a monk, but I eat, drink, and sleep carelessly; and I have evil thoughts and I am in great trouble, passing from one work to another and from one thought to another?’ The old man said,

‘Sit in your cell and do the little you can untroubled.

For I think the little you can do now is of equal value to the great deeds which Abba Antony accomplished on the mountain, and I believe that by remaining sitting in your cell for the name of God, and guarding your conscience, you also will find the place where Abba Antony is.’

The Wisdom of the Desert Fathers
Benedicta Ward