This app organizes the words or sayings, of various monks who lived in the lonely deserts of Egypt between 250 A.D. and 400 A.D. The topics cover such issues as love, poverty, fasting, humility, and prayer.

The thieves beheld a man in whom the word of the Gospels had become a reality. In the Orthodox Church, such men are called Holy Fathers. Over the course of two milennia, this ancient Church has striven to preserve precisely that truth received from the apostles, together with experience of living communion with God. Therefore the Orthodox Church has also been able to give birth to a multitude of saints, who have been bearers of this experience of heavenly life while still on earth.