Being offended at the sins of others is a serious spiritual disease. - Ignatius Bryanchaninov

Do not waste time trying to determine who is right and who is wrong, you or your neighbor. Instead, try to accuse yourself and preserve peace with your neighbor through your humility.

Brothers! Let us study the all-powerful and life-giving commandments of our great God, Creator, and Redeemer. Let us learn them assiduously, by word and by life. They are read in the holy Gospels, but they are known only as much as they are done in actual fact.

The fall has become so assimilated to the essence of all mankind that rejection of the fall has become tantamount to rejection of our very life.