لم يخف آباء الكنيسة من الذهاب إلى الصحراء لأن في قلوبهم ثراءً. أما نحن، فمع الثراء المحيط بنا، نخاف، لأن الصحراء في قلوبنا.

“The Fathers of the Church were not afraid to go out into the desert because they had a richness in their hearts. But we, with richness all around us, are afraid, because the desert is in our hearts.”Franz Kafka