Desert Fathers Sayings

#1. The Christian ought not to say anything behind his brother's back with the object of calumniating him, for this is slander, even if what is said is true. He ought to turn away from the brother who speaks evil against him?

Saint Basil

#2. The Alexandrian Mystics' emphasis on silent prayer gave their teachings interior depth missing from Western theology today.

Amos Smith

#3. Now I'm livin' out here on the beach, but those seagulls are still out of reach.

Neil Young

#4. A monk was told that his father had died. He said to the messenger, "Do not blaspheme. My Father cannot die.

Benedicta Ward

#5. Osama Bin Laden is dead? Oh my God, that was so easy! And it only took two trillion dollars, two wars and too many good men.

Christopher Titus

#6. We suffer most when the White House busts with ideas.

H.L. Mencken

#7. We live in that grave, in those clothes, in the pressure between nothing and everything, we live by perpetual movement from place to place but we want oh we so much want to escape to say it all to come home at last to the right place our rightful place our rightful space. As if that was possible.

Gabriel Josipovici

#8. It was a dictum of his that the soul's energy thrives when the body's desires are feeblest.

St.Athanasius

#9. The Fathers of the Church were not afraid to go out into the desert because they had a richness in their hearts. But we, with richness all around us, are afraid, because the desert is in our hearts.

Franz Kafka

#10. I would never, ever desert my child. A lot of my friends didn't have fathers growing up, and they were very upset that their fathers weren't around. I was lucky to have mine around.

Dwight Howard