SO GOOD QUOTES

Frankness 

You want to be sincere in defending the Truth. But your frankness often hurts people, they become upset and take a stand against you… 

Take a good look at yourself. With how many people have you employed this hurtful ‘frank’ manner and done a lot of damage for no reason?! What is more, you have not won their souls for the Lord either. 

You ought to have spoken gently and wisely, with consideration for the feelings of others, as our Lord spoke to the Samaritan woman, so that he won her soul without hurting her feelings (John 4) . 

If God were to send an angel to speak to everyone about his actions, the hidden ones and those that are plain to see, could anyone bear it? 

We thank God that He does not use this method, this hurtful ‘frankness’, with us, out of His great love and kindness and His sympathy for people’s feelings

—H.H. Pope Shenouda III, Experiences in Life