The Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian Monks - 7. Fortitude (2/5/47)

A brother asked Agatho, 'I have been instructed to go somewhere, and I have serious doubts about the place where I have been told to go. I want to obey the order, yet I'm frightened of the inner struggle which will follow.' The hermit said, 'Agatho was like that. He obeyed orders, and so he won the battle.'