Athanasius of Alexandria Quotes

Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others.

Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.

The person who understands the evil in his own heart is the only person who is useful, fruitful, and solid in his beliefs and obedience. Others only delude themselves and thus upset families, churches, and all other relationships. In their self-pride and judgment of others, they show great inconsistency.

Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.

Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

I'm much more interested in looking at our own failings than going to some faraway place and looking at their failings, thus making us feel good about ourselves.

I wouldn't be the type of person to critique anybody. I've got to look at myself first, to be a better person.

To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?

Critisism is just reflection of the person that speaking

Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.

How easy it is to be "deep": all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws.

Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.

To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.

It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others; a sharp-sighted self-love of others

I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.

Many a time comes when we want to interpret our weakness and cowardice as forgiveness and renunciation.

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

When you descant on the faults of others, consider whether you be not guilty of the same. To gain knowledge of ourselves, the best way is to convert the imperfections of others into a mirror for discovering our own.

The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves.

Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.

How easy it is to see your brother's faults, How hard it is to face your own.