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you pay back abuse with abuse. You have heard it read, “Be angry but do not<br />
sin.” Therefore, although we are angry (as a result of our nature, not our will),<br />
we must not utter one evil word with our mouths, lest we fall into sin.<br />
- St. Ambrose<br />
+ Nothing pains the soul more than slander, whether directed against one’s faith<br />
or one’s manner of life. No one can be indifferent to it except those who, like<br />
Susanna, have their eyes fixed on God. For only God has the power to rescue<br />
from danger, as He rescued her, to convince men of truth, as He did in her<br />
case, and to encourage the soul with hope.<br />
- St. Maximos the Confessor<br />
+ If anyone reproaches, grieves or offends you in any way, do not become<br />
angry with that brother, but going away, pray to God for him in this way, “O Lord<br />
forgive him, and ascribe this insult to the Devil, for it is a demon who teaches us<br />
to offend one another.”<br />
- Elder Hilarion of Sarov<br />
+ The unjust person, or the malicious person, or the slanderer, is no different<br />
from the Devil.<br />
- <strong>Fr</strong>om the Desert <strong>Fathers</strong><br />
+ To speak evil of the righteous is a sin not easily pardoned.<br />
- St. Jerome<br />
+ The sin of the man who tells a lie to help another is not so heinous as that<br />
of the man who tells a lie to injure another.<br />
- St. Augustine<br />
+ There is a difference between lying and being a liar. A man may tell a lie<br />
unwillingly, but a liar loves to lie, and inhabits in his mind the delight of lying.<br />
- St. Augustine<br />
+ Since by lying - eternal life is lost, never for any man’s temporal life must a<br />
lie be told.<br />
- St. Augustine<br />
+ The tongue is to be moderately bridled, not to be bound immoderately.<br />
- St. Gregory of Rome<br />
+ Make it your object, therefore, to keep your tongue chaste as well as your<br />
eyes.<br />
- St. Jerome<br />
+ Blessed are the lips, which never utter what they would wish to recall.<br />
- Sulpitius Severus<br />
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