"True
charity is not that which thinks lightly of evil, but that which is slow to
believe in it; whose presumptions are ever those of a trustful and holy heart;
and which, even when a brother's guilt is indisputably clear, thinks, amid its
shock and grief, that he has fallen from his real nature, and cannot be at
peace with himself, that there must be a better soul behind, where God's
long-suffering solicitation may find a hearing yet; and that any how, through
whatever suffering and discipline, the right ways of heaven, the everlasting
sanctities, must triumph in the end. And so it is, that without faith there can
be no charity." James Martineau.
Friday, March 20, 2015
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