St. John Climacus, Ladder of Divine Ascent, Step 28 on Confession

"When we see sinners we must always weep for ourselves first over their failure. Perhaps we have fallen in the same way; or we can fall, if we haven't yet. And if the judgment of the teaching office must always eradicate vices by the power of discipline, we must nevertheless make careful distinctions: we should be uncompromising about vice, but compassionate to human nature. If a sinner has to be punished, a neighbor has to be supported. When he has nullified what he has done by his repentance, our neighbor is no longer a sinner. With the righteousness of God he turns against himself, and what the divine righteousness reproves he punishes in himself."

- St. Gregory the Great, Forty Gospel Homilies

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St. John Climacus, Ladder of Divine Ascent, Step 28 on Confession

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St. John Climacus, Ladder of Divine Ascent, Step 28

St. John Chrysostom, On the Gospel of St. Matthew

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