“To justify ourselves by condemning others is our permanent tendency, in private as in public life. True nobility is to take responsibility oneself. True humility and true love, in the spiritual order, consist in knowing ourselves to be guilty ‘in everything and for everyone.’
How can we judge another person without imprisoning that person in his past acts? Without shackling him to one moment of his development? A change of heart is always possible, even ‘between the stirrup and the ground’ in a fatal fall from a horse.’
All of us are the people who put Christ to death, the daily executioners of love. And Christ loves us and, when put to death by us, offers us resurrection.”
~Olivier Clement
(”Broken Shackles” via imgarcade.com)