"By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

But in the love of Christ we know all about every conceivable sin and guilt; for we know how Jesus suffered, and how all men havé been forgiven at the foot of the cross.

Christian love sees the fellow-man under the cross and therefore sees with clarity.

If when we judged others, our real motive was to destroy evil, we should look for evil where it is certain to be found, and that is in our own hearts.

But if we are on the look-out for evil in others, our real motive is obviously to justify ourselves, for we are seeking to escape punishment for our own sins by passing judgement on others, and are assuming by implication that the Word of God applies to ourselves in one way, and to others in another.

All this is highly dangerous and misleading. We are trying to claim for ourselves a special privilege which we deny to others." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer