Quote for the Day

A brother asked Abba Poemen, 'How can a man avoid speaking ill of his neighbour?'  The old man said to him, 'We and our brothers are two images; when a man is watchful about himself, and has to reproach himself, in his heart he thinks his brother better than he; but when he appears to himself to be good, then he thinks his brother evil compared to himself.'

-- Sayings of the Desert Fathers