Zachariah the Recluse

Abba Zachariah the Recluse 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 Macarius said to Abba Zachariah: “Tell me, what is the task of the monk?”
  “You are asking me, father?”
  he said, and Abba Macarius said: “I have full confidence in you, Zachariah my son, for there is somebody inciting me to ask you.”
  Abba Zachariah said to him: “In my opinion, to constrain oneself in all things: that is being the monk.”
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