““The same Abba Theophilus, the archbishop, came to Scetis one day. The brethren who were assembled said to Abba Pambo, "Say something to the archbishop, so that he may be edified." The old man said to them, "If he is not edified by my silence, he will not be edified by my speech." See The Sayings of the Desert Fathers, translated and with a foreword by Benedicta Ward, SLG (Kalamazoo, Michigan: Cistercian Publications, 1984), p. 81.””
