Paul wrote to Christians living in Rome, "Don't you see how wonderfully kind, tolerant and patient God is with you? Does this mean nothing to you? Can't you see that His kindness is intended to turn you from your sin?"
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
A benefit should be kept like a buried treasure, only to be dug up in necessity... Nature bids us to do well by all....... Wherever there is a human being, we have an opportunity for kindness. — Seneca, On the Happy Life, 24.2-3
October 15th: Give people the benefit of the doubt
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Everything turns on your assumptions about it, and that's on you. You can pluck out the hasty judgment at will, and like steering a ship around the point, you will find calm seas, fair weather and a safe port.— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 12.22
22 But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ,23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne.32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.33 He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.
