SO GOOD QUOTES

For some, confession turns into complaining about others! They may complain about their circumstances at home or at work or in the church, like the wife, for example, who sits with the father confessor to confess. She narrates to him her husband’s ill-treatment, and so confesses her husband’s sins, and not her own. Or she may confess the difficulties and troubles in her life, but regarding herself, she says nothing because before going to confession, she did not reproach herself.

—H.H. Pope Shenouda III, Before the Just Judge