Wisdom from the desert

-Every day you provide your bodies with good to keep them from
failing. In the same way your good works should be the daily
nourishment of your hearts. Your bodies are fed with food and your
spirits with good works. You aren't to deny your soul, which is
going to live forever, what you grant to your body, which is going
to die.

St. Gregory the Great

-God descends to the humble as waters flow down from the hills into
the valleys.

St. Tikhon of Voronezh

-It is better to eat meat and drink wine (the Desert Fathers and Mothers abstained from both) than to eat the flesh of one's brethren through slander.

Abba Hyperechius