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434 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford 6 Mar 2024 \ on: All People are People charts_and_numbers
So true @kr. Its just so much easier for us to justify our own hatred and actions when we demonize others. The older I get the more I see people as this graphic describes. None of us are good, some try more than others. So commit evil acts but aren't demons.
“No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.”
— CS Lewis - Mere Christianity
“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
Matthew 7:3-5 New International Version
If we could live in this way. Try to be good, to seek first to improve ourselves before condemning others. Wouldn't it be a better world. That is not to say we do nothing when wrongs are committed. But rather we look to ourselves first so that we can more clearly see and understand.
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33 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 6 Mar 2024
One of the most painful but in hindsight obvious truths I discovered in life was that you need to be able to help yourself first before you can even attempt to help someone else. Your quote from Matthew highlights that.
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