SO GOOD QUOTES

Category: GOSSIP & SLANDER

  • “To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.”

    —Will Durant

  • There are some who, if they meet with any reverse, or are slandered by any one, or if they fall into any bodily malady, any pain in the foot or head, or any other disease, immediately blaspheme. In this way they endure the affliction, but are deprived of the benefit.

    On Wealth and Poverty
    St. John Chrysostom

  • Sin makes man afraid of being exposed and his sin revealed before the others. And he fears the consequences of sin: the punishment inflicted by the society or the law, and he fears God and His judgment.

    —H.H. Pope Shenouda III, Fruits of the Spirit

  • Therefore, whoever uses hurting or hard words like stones cast on others is not a person of chaste tongue. The chaste tongue does not defame or expose anyone, because it is a polite and decent tongue that weighs every word before uttering it.

    —H.H. Pope Shenouda III, Fruits of the Spirit

  • So many are the causes of fear, and they all come out of
    one’s own heart.

    Some fear slander from others, fear their attacks and plotting; and some fear their envy. One who believes in the envious eye and its harm will keep afraid. The cause of his fear is not the power of the envious eye, but the weakness of his heart that believes in that.

    —H.H. Pope Shenouda III, Fruits of the Spirit

  • Did someone slander you? Leave it to Me; be attached to Me so that you can hide from the “contradiction of the nations.” I will make your righteousness shine like light and your life like midday noon.

    This was from Me.
    St. Seraphim of Viritsa

  • Leave all human injustices to the Lord, for God is the Judge, but as to yourself, be diligent in loving everybody with a pure heart.

    —St. John of Kronstadt

  • WHEN SOMEONE INJURES US IN WHATEVER WAY, WHETHER WITH SLANDERS OR WITH INSULTS, WE SHOULD THINK OF HIM AS OUR BROTHER WHO HAS BEEN TAKEN HOLD OF BY THE ENEMY. WE HAS FALLEN VICTIM TO THE ENEMY. ACCORDINGLY WE NEED TO HAVE COMPASSION FOR HIM AND ENTREAT GOD TO HAVE MERCY BOTH ON US AND ON HIM, AND GOD WILL HELP BOTH, IF, HOWEVER, WE ARE FILLED WITH ANGER AGAINST HIM, THEN THE ENEMY WILL JUMP FROM HIM TO US AND MAKE A MOCKERY OF US BOTH A PERSON WHO CONDEMNS OTHERS DOES NOT LOVE CHRIST. OUR EGOTISM IS AT FAULT.

    Elder Porphyrios
    Wounded by Love

  • Light or darkness will never be hidden. Whatever is within us, will be known. As much as we try to hide, it will be known.

    —Fr. Daniel Fanous

  • “If you want it to be private, don’t let it leave your lips.”

    —Fr. Tadros Malaty