See by a brighter Light

“Never let us be discouraged with ourselves. It is not when we are conscious of our faults that we are the most wicked; on the contrary, we are less so. We see by a brighter light; and let us remember for our consolation, that we never perceive our sins till… [the cure] begin[s]…”

“Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.”
~François Fénelon