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Ward: "If you are silent, you will have peace wherever you live."

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Abba (c. 340–450) was an Egyptian Christian monk and early Desert Father who is the most quoted Abba (Father) in the Apophthegmata Patrum (Sayings of the Desert Fathers).

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Diogenes Laërtius Pythagoras Chinua Achebe Confucius Plutarch

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Ward: Abba Poemen said, "If a man has sinned and denies it, saying: 'I have not sinned,' do not reprimand him; for that will discourage him.
But say to him, 'Do not lose heart, brother, but be on guard in future,' and you will stir his soul to repentance."

Ward: A brother asked Abba Poemen, "How should a man behave?"
The old man said to him, "Look at Daniel: no-one found anything in him to complain about except for his prayers to the Lord his God."

Ward: Abba Poemen said, "If I am in a place where there are enemies, I become a soldier."

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