Many people say, “I do not like to confront because confrontation causes problems,” but when our life is Bible-based, we realize that it is impossible for our Lord Jesus Christ to give us a commandment that would cause problems. If confrontation causes problems, then we must examine if the fault is in not knowing how to confront.
—H.E. Metropolitan Youssef, Inner Healing
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Do not condemn. Not even if your very eyes are seeing something, for they may be deceived. If we desire to find something to condemn, we will find it, whether or not it justly deserves criticism. But, it is important to realize, such an attitude comes not out of love, not out of a desire to truly make things better, but rather, to make ourselves look better than everyone else.
—St. John Climacus -
“Sometimes the thing we’re struggling with personally is the thing that we’re so violently loud about.” e.g. they should not be doing this
—Fr. Antony Paul -
You must remember that you are a sinner. Always have that knowledge when you evaluate anyone else. I’m a sinner, they’re a sinner. Who am I to say my sin is better than theirs?
—Fr. Seraphim Holland -
If you’re struggling to forgive someone, God will help you and you will eventually achieve that goal.
If you’re not struggling to forgive them – or even worse, you’re justifying – then you’re in a bad place. A dangerous place.
—Fr. Seraphim Holland -
Such persons must labor, each one in his degree, for his own correction, and you must labor to bear with their weaknesses. You know from experience the bitterness of the work of correction; strive then to find means to make it less bitter to others. You have not an eager zeal to correct, but a sensitiveness that easily shuts up your heart.
François Fénelon, Spiritual Progress
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Long-suffering and readiness to forgive curb anger; love and compassion wither it.
—St. Thalassios the Libyan, On Love, Self-control and Life
in Accordance with the Intellect -
When you forgive someone, you stop punishing them in your mind. It means that you stop rehearsing in your mind how much they hurt you.
—Fr. Michael Gillis -
“Refusing to forgive is a way of clinging to my rights and getting my due now because I really do not believe that God can do better for me. If I truly trust that God can and will bring good out of every situation, then I am free to let go and forgive with a peaceful heart.”
All That I Have Is Yours: 100 Meditations with St. Pope Kyrillos VI on the Spiritual Life
Fr. Kyrillos Ibrahim -
This virtue is related to the opening up of our heart, to an increase in its capacity. Other people’s faults have to find room, there has to be space for whatever they’ve done to our detriment, even their excuses, never mind whether we find these sufficient or true. All their weaknesses have to fit in.
It’s often such a struggle to accept others as they are. Because we demand that they be as we want them to be. But it’s not like that. They’ve done us some harm, wittingly or unwittingly, They’ve got some strange habit or other.
They may have been brought up differently from us, they may have certain external habits which jar, certain weaknesses, certain expressions of fallen, sinful human nature, just as we most certainly have, too. So God calls upon us to open our heart and to put our fellow human beings inside, as they are, so that we can love them as our brothers and sisters.—
—Metropolitan Nikolaos (Hatzinikolaou) of Mesogaia and Lavreotiki
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