Isidore of Pelusium

Abba Isidore of Pelusium was one of the Desert Fathers quoted in the Apophthegmata Patrum (Sayings of the Desert Fathers).

Quotes

Wortley, John (2014). Give Me a Word: The Alphabetical Sayings of the Desert Fathers. Yonkers, New York: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press. ISBN 978-0-88141-497-4. 

• Abba Isidore of Pelusium used to say:
  “A life without a word is more advantageous than a word without life;
  for the first, even in silence, is advantageous,
  while the second is a trouble-maker when it cries out,
  whereas if life and word run together they constitute the portrait of all philosophy.”
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