Those who honor the priest will honor God, and those who despise the priest will gradually come to someday insult God. Though the priest is unworthy, seeing that you revere even the unworthy in honor of Him, He Himself will reward you. I urge and beg you to let go of the bad habit of censuring the spiritual leaders. To the priests, whom we speak poorly of, we will not harm in any way, not only when we tell a lie, but even the truth, but we are destroying ourselves. - St. John Chrysostom