"An elder was asked: ‘Why am I fearful on going into the desert?’ He said: ‘Because you think yourself alone, and you do not see God with you.’"

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ProverbsChristian textsMonasticismDesert Fathers
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p. 102, Armenian sayings no. 21 (translated by Robert W. Thomson from the Armenian Paterica: Vark’ srboc’ Haranc’, 2 vols., Mechitarist Press, Venice, 1855.)