What derangement, what weakness

Words of Life - 25 March 2017
 Saint John of Kronstadt

What darkness, what delusion, what weakness and what a terrible, deathly power sin is. Is it other people’s fault that they’re different from us and so we hate them, or that they disagree with us or that they don’t play to our egotism and don’t flatter our passions? Don’t we all have our own free will, our own idiosyncrasy, our temperament, habits and little ways? We should be understanding towards others and respect other people’s freedom, which even God Himself doesn’t infringe.