“He who grows in grace remembers that he is but dust, and he therefore does not expect his fellow Christians to be anything more. He overlooks ten thousand of their faults, because he knows his God overlooks twenty thousand in his own case. He does not expect perfection in the creature, and, therefore, he is not disappointed when he does not find it.”
~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons, p. 448
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This is a great quote (I love Spurgeon!). How well we would get along with others if we would always remember that we are all but dust, and quit having such high expectations of others!
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Good point. ANd thanks for the quote by Eliot on comments on my post—yes I have read several of the books about him and his wife. That quote is just what one of my friends needs too—great advice and I am putting on my daily prayer cards.