Many of us ask for thieves to go to jail, murderers to be executed, offenders to be punished. When you strike evil with evil, evil is multiplied.
When you see someone being punished fairly and you rejoice, it shows a cruel man. When you judge others by purely external criteria, you are not fair.
When you don’t tolerate them, you make your life harder in the name of your Justice and you will be treated the same way for your own crimes.
God tolerates, expects, understands, sympathizes, and is crucified for every human being. He only knows how to love, to speak to our conscience discreetly, to prevent with gentleness.
“Blessed are the meek, the quiet, the humble, and those who weep for their own sins, because these shall inherit the earth…” said Jesus. Love, forgive, justify, endure to be loved, forgiven, accepted, deeply calmed by this life. Live as the last of all, as the earth we tread upon, but it bears us all.
A saint of our days used to say:
“Never accuse any priest or consecrated person to God, but neither the seculars, nor the greatest sinners, and even if you still see them sinning.
All people who dwell on earth and those who have passed away since the creation of the world, see them as holy and righteous, and see only yourself as a sinner, the last of all the world and worthy of condemnation and many punishments. It is good and pleasing to God to die for the world and live eternally with Him.”
St. Elder Evmenios Saridakis