“EVERY believer knows very well that all men will be judged—both himself and others. But neither he nor another is God, able to pass judgment. And what each one is before God, neither the one nor the other knows. Here the “Judge not” of the Gospels applies with its full force. We can render judgment concerning ideas, truths or errors; good or bad actions; character, temperament, and what appears to us of man’s interior disposition. But we are utterly forbidden to judge the innermost heart, that inaccessible center where the person day after day weaves his own fate, and ties the bonds binding him to God. When it comes to that, there is only one thing to do, and that is to trust in God. And that is precisely what love for our neighbor prompts us to so.”
~Jacques Maritain: Ransoming the Time.
~Jacques Maritain: Ransoming the Time.
