“Where is your humility when you feel and say that everyone wrongs you and that only you are good? Humility is, when the other person is at fault, for us to do a metanoia to him saying, “Forgive me, my brother, I am sorry!” before he has time to seek forgiveness. This should not seem difficult and burdensome to you. It is nothing in comparison to what Christ the Master did for us. Before the angels He stooped down and did a metanoia from heaven to earth; “He bowed the heavens and came down” — God to men! Whereas you turn the world upside-down so that you don’t say one “sorry”! So then, where is your humility? When you humble yourself, everyone will seem saintly to you; when you are proud, everyone will seem bothersome and bad.”

– ‘Monastic Wisdom’