A brother in Scete happened to commit a fault, and the elders assembled, and sent for Abbot Moses to join them. He, however, did not want to come. The priest sent him a message, saying: Come, the community of the brethren is waiting for you. So he arose and started off. And taking with him a very old basket full of holes, he filled it with sand, and carried it behind him. The elders came out to meet him, and said: What is this, Father? The elder replied: My sins are running out behind me, and I do not see them, and today I come to judge the sins of another! They, hearing this, said nothing to the brother but pardoned him.
One of the elders was asked what was humility, and he said: If you forgive a brother who has injured you before he asks pardon.
– Thomas Merton, The Wisdom of the Desert: Sayings from the Desert Fathers of the Fourth Century
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