187: How to be gentle with yourself W/ St. Francis De Sales
Pints With Aquinas
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Are We Sorry for Our Faults?
francis is saying that any reason for us to lose our peace, anything including sin, is a bad reason. He says we must be sorry for our faults in a calm, settled, firm way. When a judge is guided in his decisions by reason and proceeds calmly, he punishes criminals much more justly than when he acts in violence and passion. If he passes judgment hastily and passionately, he does not punish the crime because of what they really are, but because ofwhat they seem to him.
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