#saintly behaviour

[loveandknowledge]

A man may make use of any tradition handed down to him from the wise and saintly men of the past, but he himself must use his reason to verify everything that is handed down, and to be ready to accept one thing, but reject another.

Leo Tolstoy, 'A Calendar of Wisdom', 12 January

[loveandknowledge]

A saintly person does not possess an inflexible heart. He adapts his heart so that it can respond to other people's hearts. He responds to a virtuous person as if he were a virtuous person, and to a sinner as if he were capable of becoming virtuous.

Eastern proverb