Desert Fathers: Nails and humility
Today’s quotation comes from a Desert Mother, Syncletica:
“Just as one cannot build a ship unless one has some nails, so it is impossible to be saved without humility”
– Syncletica of Alexandria
"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
Today’s quotation comes from a Desert Mother, Syncletica:
“Just as one cannot build a ship unless one has some nails, so it is impossible to be saved without humility”
– Syncletica of Alexandria