Dorotheus of Gaza Quotes About Neighbors

Quotes about: Neighbors

• The more one is united to his neighbor the more he is united to God.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Christian, Neighbor, Orthodox

  Saint Dorotheus (of Gaza) (1977). “Discourses and Sayings”

• If we have true love with sympathy and patient labor, we shall not go about scrutinizing our neighbor's shortcomings.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Christian, Patient, Neighbor

  Saint Dorotheus (of Gaza) (1977). “Discourses and Sayings”

• If one of you sees, sometime, something unedifying and so much as goes on to pass it on and put it into the heart of another brother, in doing so you not only harm yourself but you harm your brother by putting one more little bit of knavery into his heart. Even if that brother has his mind set on prayer or some other noble activity, and the first arrives and furnishes him with something to prate about, he not only impedes what he ought to be doing, but brings a temptation on him. There is nothing graver or more deadly than this doing harm, not only to himself but also to his neighbor.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Christian, Brother, Prayer

• By accepting a suspicion against the neighbor, by saying, 'What does it matter if I put in a word about my suspicion? What does it matter if I find out what my brother is saying or what a guest is doing?' the mind begins to forget about its own sins and to talk idly about his neighbor, speaking evil against him, despising him, and from this he falls into the very thing he condemns. Because we become careless about our own faults and do not lament our own death, we lose the power to correct ourselves and we are always at work on our neighbor.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Christian, Brother, Fall

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