SO GOOD QUOTES

St. John Chrysostom somewhere exhibits one man who praises another for his good looks, stateliness, wealth, nice house, his excellent choice horses, etc.; and then directs the following speech to him: “Why haven’t you told me anything about the man himself? All that you have described is not him.”

—St. Theophan the Recluse, The Path to Salvation: A Manual of Spiritual Transformation