Purity And Judgement

Εἶπεν ὁ ἀββᾶς Ποιμὴν ὅτι Ἐαν φθάσῃ ἂνθρωπος εἰς τὸ ῥητὸν τοῦ Ἀποστόλου, τὸ, Πάντα καθαρὰ τοῖς καθαροῖς· ὁρᾷ ἑαυτὸν ἐλάττονα πάσης τῆς κτίσεως. Λέγει ὁ ἀδελφός· Πῶς δύναμαι ἐμαυτὸν ἐλάττονα τοῦ φονέως ἡγεῖσθαι; Λέγει ὁ γέρων, ὅτι Ἐὰν φθάσῃ ἄνθρωπος εἰς τὸ ῥῆμα τοῦτο, καὶ ἴδῃ ἄνθρωπον φονεύοντα, λέγει, ὅτι Ταύτην τὴν ἁμαρτίαν ἐποίησε μόνην οὗτος, ἐγὼ δὲ φονεύω καθ' ἐκάστην ἡμέραν. Ἠρώτησεν ὁ ἀδελφὸς τὸ αὐτὸ ῥῆμα τὸν ἀββᾶν Ἀνοὺβ, ὡς ὅ τι εἶπεν ὁ ἀββᾶς Ποιμήν. Καὶ λέγει αὐτῷ ὁ ἀββᾶς Ἀνοὺβ, ὅτι Ἐὰν φθάσῃ ἄνθρωπος εἰς τὸ ῥῆμα τοῦτο, καὶ ἴδῇ τὰ ὑστερήματα τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ αὐτοῦ, ποιεῖ τὴν δικαιοσύνην αὐτοῦ καταπιεϊν αὐτοῦ. Λέγει αὐτῷ ὁ ἀδελφός· Ποία ἐστὶν ἡ δικαιοσύνη αὐτοῦ; Ἀπεκρίθη ὁ γέρων· Ἵνα πάντοτε καταμέμφηται ἑαυτόν. Ἀποφθεγματα Των Ἁγίων Γερόντων, Παλλαδιος Source: Migne PG 65 345

Father Poemen said that if a man has attained to the saying of the Apostle,'To the pure, everything is pure,' 1 he sees himself less than all creatures.' A brother said, 'How can I see myself as inferior to a murderer?' The elder said, 'If a man has attained to this saying and he sees a man committing a murder, he says, 'He has only committed this one sin but I commit murder every day.' A brother questioned father Anoub about the same saying, telling him what father Poemen had said. Father Anoub said to him, 'If a man attains to this saying, when he sees his brother's faults he sees that his righteousness devours his faults.' The brother said, 'What is righteousness?' The elder answered, 'Always to blame oneself.' Sayings of the Desert Fathers, Palladius of Galatia 1 Titus 1.15