SO GOOD QUOTES

The person who lives in isolation from others and refrains from helping others, has a problem with boundaries, because he shuts his doors to good things.

Nevertheless, we pray in the Divine Liturgy, “He made us unto Himself an assembled people, and sanctified us.”

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The avoiders do not allow [both] the good and the bad from entering, even though there may be a risk that God may be left outside the heart, and he does not allow Him to come in: “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.” (Rev 3:20)

“Do not consent in your thoughts, nor characterize in your words, any person as evil. The Lord has loosened us from the bondage of the devil, so that we should not bind ourselves again nor give our souls up to slavery by our ill opinion.”

St. Macarius

—H.E. Metropolitan Youssef, How to Build Boundaries