"Abba Moses asked Abba Silvanus, "Can a man lay a new foundation every day?" The old man said, "If he works hard, he can lay a new foundation at every moment.""
— Repentance

January 1, 1970

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Abba Silvanus, in Sayings of the Desert Fathers, as translated by Benedicta Ward, SLG (Cistercian Publications: 1975), p. 224