Confession and Self-Examination: Chrysostom on Not Comparing Yourself to Others
Teaching on Confession and Self-Examination from John Chrysostom: Chrysostom on Not Comparing Yourself to Others
This is a spiritual discipline on comparison and personal calling, drawing on Galatians 6:4-5, 2 Corinthians 10:12 and John 21:21-22.
John Chrysostom taught that one of the greatest obstacles to honest self-examination is the habit of comparing ourselves to others. He preached: "When you look at another's sins, you see nothing but what is in him; but when you look at your own, you see things differently. Do not compare your virtue with another's vice, but compare your virtue with virtue itself."…
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