The words of Chrysostom were instructive to me early on, particularly in an age in which aspiring preachers are taught that you have failed if your audience ever thinks ill of you:
“For if he be first carried away with the desire for indiscriminate praise, he will reap no advantage from his labors, or from his power in preaching, for the mind being unable to bear the senseless censures of the multitude is dispirited, and casts aside all earnestness about preaching. Therefore it is especially necessary to be trained to be indifferent to all kinds of praise.”