16
July 2021
On Word
and Deed
Dangerous to teach…
It is dangerous for anyone
to teach who has not first been trained in the practical life. For if someone
who owns a ruined house receives guests there, he does them harm because of the
dilapidation of his dwelling. It is the same in the case of someone who has not
first built an interior dwelling; he causes loss to those who come. By words
one may convert them to salvation, but by evil behavior, one injures them.
Saint Synkletike (a Desert Mother)
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