Desert Fathers: Meribah Men

A grumbler is not a monk. Anyone who gives evil for evil is not a monk. An irritable man is not a monk
– De vitis Patrum, Sive Verba Seniorum, Liber V
"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine

A grumbler is not a monk. Anyone who gives evil for evil is not a monk. An irritable man is not a monk
– De vitis Patrum, Sive Verba Seniorum, Liber V