If a passionate man tries to correct an egotist, steel hits flint and fires are ignited!
If he tries to correct a sensitive person, he hurts him greatly.
It would be like a wild man taking a thick wire brush to clean out a little mucus from a baby’s eye.
What a wonderful thing it will be when we know ourselves!
Then humility will be for us a state of being, and God will position us well with His divine gifts.
Then the spiritual laws will cease working, and the one who rises the highest will humble himself, for we will all walk low, we won’t fall and we will continually receive the grace of God which is given to the humble.
Elder Paisios