Be Careful

“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.”
~St. Dorotheos of Gaza

“Judge not. There’s the raw fact that when we judge another the sin enters us and soon we commit the same sin. How this works, I’m not sure, but that it does, I’ve seen in my own life.”
~Mary Margaret Funk