"Let us therefore accept the other as he is. One will insult me. Of course. Another will praise me. Indeed. One will give me half a glass of water. Very well.

Let us not meddle in the life of the other. Only when they ask for our love, let us give it to them as God gives it, “both over the righteous and the unrighteous.” Let us keep the unity of the Spirit, that is, the holy faith that God gave us. This is the subject of our struggle, the one that God loves."

Elder Aimilianos of Simonopetra, translated by Fr. Silviu from Μοναχική Έκφραση 28 [Σεπτέμβριος-Οκτώβριο 2008