SO GOOD QUOTES

Author: SO GOOD QUOTES

  • “Reject completely every suspicion about someone else that rises in your heart, because it destroys love and peace.”

    —Theoleptos, Metropolitan of Philadelphia

  • “A horse when alone often imagines that it is galloping, but when it is with others it finds out how slow it is.”

    —St. John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent

  • Offer to those who visit you what is necessary both for the body and for the spirit. If they are wiser than we are, let us show our philosophy by silence. And if they are brethren following the same way of life, let us open the door of speech to them in due measure. Yet it is better to regard all as superior to us.

    —St. John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent

  • If any man thinks ill of you, do not be angry with him. For you are worse than he thinks you to be.

    — Charles Spurgeon

  • “Recognizing one’s own frailty is the strongest defense against the perils of pride.”

    —John Khalil

  • Never allow yourself boldly to judge your neighbour; judge and condemn no one, especially for the particular bodily sin of which we are speaking. If someone has manifestly fallen into it, rather have compassion and pity for him. Do not be indignant with him or laugh at him, but let his example be a lesson in humility to you; realising that you too are extremely weak and as easily moved to sin as dust on the road, say to yourself: ‘He fell today, but tomorrow I shall fall.’

    —Lorenzo Scupoli, Unseen Warfare

  • “Never condemn each other. We condemn others only because we shun knowing ourselves. When we gaze at our own failings, we see such a swamp that nothing in another can equal it. That is why we turn away, and make much of the faults of others. Instead of condemning others, strive to reach inner peace. Keep silent, refrain from judgement. This will raise you above the deadly arrows of slander, insult and outrage and will shield your glowing hearts against all evil.”

    —St. Seraphim of Sarov

  • “When you see someone crying over the many insults he has received, you should know that, because he was overcome by vainglory, he is now unknowingly reaping the crop of evils in his heart. He who loves pleasure is grieved by accusations and abuse. On the other hand, he who loves God is grieved by praises and other superfluous remarks. The degree of our humility is measured by slander. Don’t think that you have humility when you cannot forbear even the slightest accusation.”

    — Abba Mark

  • “Remember the one who has ridiculed you, who has grieved you, who has wronged you, who has done evil to you, as your physician, your healer. Christ sent him to heal you; don’t remember him with anger.”

    — Abba Zossima

  • “If you praise your neighbor to one man and criticize him to another, you are the slave of self-esteem and jealousy. Through praise you try to hide your jealousy, through criticism to appear better than your neighbor.”

    —St. Mark the Ascetic