“I have never seen anyone corrected through anger, but always through love.”
Saint Joseph the Hesychast
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“Spread your wings over the sinner, and if you cannot carry his sins, then at least shelter him.”
Saint Isaac the Syrian
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“Kindness softens and opens up the heart, as oil opens a rusty lock.”
Saint Paisios the Athonite
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“Love sinners, but hate their works; and do not despise them for their faults, lest you be tempted by the same…”
Saint Isaac the Syrian
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“Be careful so that while trying to strike sin, you strike not the sinner.”
Saint John Chrysostom
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“You wish, or rather, have decided, to remove a splinter from someone? Very well, but do not go after it with a stick instead of a lancet for you will only drive it deeper. Rough speech and harsh gestures are the stick, while even-tempered instruction and patient reprimand are the lancet. ‘Reprove, rebuke, exhort,’ says the Apostle (Il Tim. 4:2), not ‘batter’.”
Saint John Climacus
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“Kindness is the language of Heaven.”
Saint Luke the Surgeon, Archbishop of Simferopel
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“Each one of us must have a mother’s heart for others.”
Saint Sophrony of Essex
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“Love will tame even the fiercest lion.”
Saint Gabriel, the New Confessor of Georgia
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“Since man was created rational and gentle he is corrected far better with love and gentleness.”
Saint Joseph the Hesychast
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“Those who do not know must be taught, not punished. We do not hit the blind. We lead them by the hand.”
Saint Dionysios the Aeropagite
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“Do not put dirt on the one who has started cleansing himself but help him to be clean.”
Saint Nikolai Velimivoric
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“If you rebuke someone and do it with anger, you have allowed a passion to control you. You have not saved anyone and have destroyed yourself.”
Saint Macarius the Great
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“Adults can approach young people who have gone astray only through love.”
Saint Paisios the Athonite
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“Since man was created rational and gentle he is corrected far better with love and gentleness.”
Saint Joseph the Hesychast
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“When a person’s heart is bad, they give him a glass of water and he immediately feels better. It turns out that one glass of water has a lot of power. Do a good deed, and not even a glass of water will be lost in front of God. The Lord says, “What you did to your neighbour, you did to me.”
Saint Gabriel, the New Confessor of Georgia