“To live without speaking is better than to speak without living. For the former who lives rightly does good even by his silence but the latter does no good even when he speaks.

When words and life correspond to one another they are together the whole of philosophy.”

The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection,

trans. Benedicta Ward (Cistercian Publications: 1975), 84.

Extracted from:  https://goo.gl/sRmkhH