It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave
It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave
But the church, like a tender, loving mother holds aloof from active punishment herself, as the sinner is too severely punished already by the civil law, and there must be at least someone to have pity on him. The church holds aloof, above all, because its judgment alone contains the truth...
Remember especially that you cannot be the judge of anyone. For there can be no judge of a criminal on earth until the judge knows that he, too, is a criminal, exactly the same as the one who stands before him, and that he is perhaps most guilty of all for the crime of the one standing before him.
Compassion was the most important, perhaps the sole law of human existence.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
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