"Our Lord's reply is again gentle; to be hard on a fault that was confessed would have dried up that confidence which flowed so freely."

Pastor Pastorum, Henry Latham.

"Better make penitents by gentleness than hypocrites by severity."

S. Francis de Sales.

Example

DECEMBER 16

"Children have more need of models than of critics."

Joubert.

"It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives."

Burke.