Putting up with the faults of others

  Some words of wisdom are universal; they apply to everyone of every faith or no faith, and of every race and nation and time. This one happens to come from a little book  known as The Imitation of Christ. A google search will offer lots of information about this medieval classic. Any, here is what "hit close to home" today:

Take pains to be patient in bearing the faults and weaknesses of others, for you too have many flaws that others must put up with. If you cannot make yourself as you would like to be, how can you expect to have another person entirely to your liking? We would willingly have others be perfect, and yet we fail to correct our own faults. We want others to be strictly corrected, and yet we are unwilling to be corrected ourselves.

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